X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4A411B7D.4060508@bmts.com> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2009 14:14:21 -0400 From: Ralph Hempel User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071022) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: find(1) assertion for folder with a sub-folder named `x:' References: <83k5381ra3.fsf@gmail.com> <20090619101927.GV5039@calimero.vinschen.de> <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C875303AF2A42@core-email.int.ascribe.com> In-Reply-To: <5E25AF06EFB9EA4A87C19BC98F5C875303AF2A42@core-email.int.ascribe.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-Information: Please contact Bruce Telecom 519.368.2000 for more information X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-brucetelecom.com-MailScanner-From: rhempel@bmts.com X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Phil Betts wrote: > mkdir -p foo/c: > cd foo > rm -rf c:/ > > In case you can't see why that's bad, DON'T TRY IT!! Don't even copy > it, because you will accidentally paste it into a terminal window, you > will get to say "oopsy!" [1], and you will hurt your forehead on > your keyboard. [OT] I have a wonderful anecdote about units of time: second - about one heart beat millisecond - about 50 of these is an eye-blink microsecond - the cycle time of my first 8086 PC nanosecond - the cycle time of a 1 GHz processor onosecond - the time between hitting return and realizing you're wiping your hard drive [/OT] Ralph -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple