X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:03:19 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Existence check fails on Cygwin Perl Message-ID: <20100817100319.GH11340@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <010016E11294264BB30D58894AB4040D02B1FE18@de010369.de.ina.com> <20100817090627.GA16800@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Aug 17 10:47, Andy Koppe wrote: > On 17 August 2010 10:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Aug 17 10:54, Lemke, Michael  SZ/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 = "\\\\server\\path\\file"; > >> >> > >> >> # Check for existance returns true for Cygwin - false for ActiveState > >> >> if (-e $file) { > >> >>   print "true\n" > >> >> } else { > >> >>   print "false\n" > >> >> } > >> >> $ perl test.pl > >> >> true > >> >> $ cqperl test.pl > >> >> false > >> >> $ > >> > > >> >I can not reproduce your problem.  I used "\\\\server\\path\\file" > >> >unchanged, as well as valid server and share names and just a > >> >non-existant file name.  In 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  1  2006 //server/junk > >> > >> Here's no server called server. > > > > I can't reproduce, but I'm already running Cygwin 1.7.6.  I have a vague > > memory that we already had a report along these lines and that I patched > > this at one point...  I *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 Oh, right, thanks. I have to refurbish my memory, I guess. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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