X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100601075727.GA1398@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <20100531122034.GG16885@calimero.vinschen.de> <20100601075727.GA1398@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2010 11:33:00 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Problems with mkdir under 1.7 From: Dave Hylands To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Hi Corinna, On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 31 19:36, Dave Hylands wrote: >> On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 5:20 AM, Corinna Vinschen >> wrote: > > > http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR Hmm. I use gmail which doesn't seem to have that as an option - but I'll look. In the meantime, I'll try to remember to edit this manually. If anybody has, or knows of, an extension or script that can do this, I'd love to hear about it. >> > On May 28 11:33, Dave Hylands wrote: >> >> I've discovered a problem with mkdir under 1.7.x that worked fine und= er 1.5.x. >> >> [...] >> >> This one fails: >> >> mkdir -p //dfs-name/dfs-share/dir/newdir >> >> mkdir: cannot create directory '//dfs-name': No such file or directory >> >> >> >> This used to work fine under 1.5.x, so I assume it's a new bug. >> > >> > I don't know. =A0I created two DFS namespaces on my 2008 server machin= e, >> > one domain namespace, one standalone namespace, and I can do the >> > aforementioned mkdir -p just fine in both namespaces. >> >> OK - I guess it's time to start debugging then.... > > That would be nice, given that you have easy access to the problematic > environment. =A0I found another problem when accessing the DFS shares from > Windows 7 which seems to affect not only Cygwin but also Windows > Explorer. =A0While it's not a Cygwin problem per se, an unwelcome side > effect in Cygwin is a crash due to an overwritten stack. =A0I'll look into > avoiding the crash at least. I forgot to mention in my original post, that in this case, cygwin is running under Windows XP (not sure if that makes a difference or not). --=20 Dave Hylands Shuswap, BC, Canada http://www.DaveHylands.com/ -- 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