X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,TW_CQ,TW_QP,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20100817090627.GA16800@calimero.vinschen.de> References: <010016E11294264BB30D58894AB4040D02B1FE18@de010369.de.ina.com> <20100817090627.GA16800@calimero.vinschen.de> Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 10:47:44 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: Existence check fails on Cygwin Perl From: Andy Koppe To: cygwin@cygwin.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 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 On 17 August 2010 10:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 17 10:54, Lemke, Michael =C2=A0SZ/HZA-ZSB2 wrote: >> On 17 Aug 2010 10:20:41 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >On Aug 16 18:13, Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> >> $ cat test.pl' >> >> use warnings; >> >> use strict; >> >> >> >> # Obviously non-existant server and file >> >> my $file =3D "\\\\server\\path\\file"; >> >> >> >> # Check for existance returns true for Cygwin - false for ActiveState >> >> if (-e $file) { >> >> =C2=A0 print "true\n" >> >> } else { >> >> =C2=A0 print "false\n" >> >> } >> >> $ perl test.pl >> >> true >> >> $ cqperl test.pl >> >> false >> >> $ >> > >> >I can not reproduce your problem. =C2=A0I used "\\\\server\\path\\file" >> >unchanged, as well as valid server and share names and just a >> >non-existant file name. =C2=A0In both cases the script prints "false". >> >And it prints "true" for an existing file, just as expected. >> >> Hm, I can reproduce it and it's even simpler, no perl involved: >> >> pc> [ -e //server/junk ] && date >> Tue Aug 17 10:28:14 WEDT 2010 >> pc> ls -ls //server/junk >> 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 lemkemch Domain Users 0 Dec =C2=A01 =C2=A02006 //server/j= unk >> >> Here's no server called server. > > I can't reproduce, but I'm already running Cygwin 1.7.6. =C2=A0I have a v= ague > memory that we already had a report along these lines and that I patched > this at one point... =C2=A0I *think* that's what is successfully hidden > behind the "Fix erroneous handling of devices in path checking." message > in the announcement... http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-06/msg00049.html -- 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