X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4B8BA6E0.2060205@bonhard.uklinux.net> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:37:04 +0000 From: Fergus User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin ML CC: Fergus Subject: Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 .. just to confirm. Booting from a Linux live CD, and with Cygwin [1.7] located on a mobile drive mounted at /m, I get ~> ls -al /m total 635088 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 0 2010-03-01 11:22 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 204800 2010-02-05 09:06 bin drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:06 dev drwxr-xr-x 52 root root 8192 2010-02-05 09:07 etc drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-03-01 11:20 home drwxr-xr-x 113 root root 102400 2010-02-05 09:15 lib drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:15 opt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-03-01 11:23 Recycled drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:15 sbin drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:15 srv drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:15 tmp drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:55 usr drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:55 var Note extraordinary double occurrence of directory named ".". "If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes .." (etc etc) Fergus -- 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