From: TerryL AT ultimatetechnology DOT com (Lincoln, W. Terry) Subject: Bugs I've discovered... 9 Jan 1999 00:07:43 -0800 Message-ID: <9901082257.AA11746.cygnus.gnu-win32@net2.netacc.net> To: "'gnu-win32 mail list'" Hi all, This is my first initial post today. I have been using Cygwin B20.1 for a couple of 3 weeks and it works pretty good all in all. There are just a couple of pesky things that are bothering me: 1) When I had my user drive mounted as /usr and my C: drive mounted as / whenever I tried to go from / to /usr by using relative paths like so this is what happened: $ pwd / $ cd usr $ pwd / $ cd /usr $ pwd /usr 2) After thinking that was a cd quirk I tried to untar.gz a file that wanted to be started from root (because it had files that started with usr/foo/bar for example: 3) $ tar -zxvf package.tar.gz all the files that went to mounted locations gave errors about directory not found! 4) I then umounted them all and started with a new tactic - symbolic links! So I created /usr in C: and linked all subdirs in my previously mounted subdirs into /usr this works fine now for 'cd' but when I want to pass a file to a DOS/WIN program this is what happens. I call `cygpath -w file` as the argument. Works good usually but not in the files is sym-linked to my mounted drives. ex: $ emacs `cygpath -w /usr/local/src/file.c {my emacs in NTemacs so it knows DOS} emacs tries to open C:/usr/local/src/file.c {should be /mnt/K/usr/local/src/file.c} because there is a symlink in C:/usr named local that points to /mnt/K/usr/local 5) When I do a ls -l command and expect to see the following: lrwxr-xr-x 5 administ Users 0 Jan 4 20:23 local -> /mnt/K/usr/local instead I see drwxr-wr-x 5 administ Users 0 Jan 4 20:23 local which gives no indication as on Linux and others that this is a link. 6) Occasionally when doing long drawn out configures or makes the whole shell window locks up completely and I have to open another window and do a kill -9 pid to try to fix it (which sometimes doesn't take. 7) Lastly I have problems with trying to read the output from make etc. as it scrolls by fast and I press C-s to pause the output. This works and when I press C-q it takes off fine. Problem is I am in the habit of pressing Pause and then any key to continue or accidentally pressing C-a or C-w instead of C-q. Well! That does it for sure. I have to end task the process from windows to fix it. Not very forgiving. ;( Thanks for listening to my gripes, and remember this: Cygwin32 is still so much better than DOS or WINDOZE for my complex demands. `Wouldn't trade it - no sir. mailto:wterrylincoln AT engineer ..com __ | | /=============================== __| |__ / For GOD so loved the world that He gave | | / His only son, that whosoever believeth on |__ __| / Him should not perish but have everlasting | | / life. (John 3:16) | | / http://www.AngelFire.com/ny/TerryLincoln | | / May His peace be found in you, | | / W. Terry Lincoln /~~~~~~\ / (senior engineer - Ultimate Technology Corporation) - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".