Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Message-Id: <4.3.1.2.20001031140921.02027560@pop.ma.ultranet.com> X-Sender: lhall AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.1 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:10:42 -0500 To: ryk AT ap DOT com, cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" Subject: Re: latest cygwin does not track pwd? Cc: ryk AT ap DOT com In-Reply-To: <14847.5635.636000.348903@gargle.gargle.HOWL> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 01:57 PM 10/31/2000, Richard Y. Kim wrote: >I updated to all latest files as of 10:30AM on October 31, 2000 from >ftp.freesoftware.com as well as ftp.yggdrasil.com. > >I give two examples of how bash and/or cygwin1.dll gets confused about >pwd. First "ls -l ./foo" reports that ./foo does not exist. However, >"cat ./foo" prints out its old content! > > bash-2.04$ cd d:/projects/apwin/tools/ > bash-2.04$ ls -l ./foo > ls: ./foo: No such file or directory > bash-2.04$ cat ./foo > #!/usr/local/bin/perl > use Cwd; > my $dir = cwd; > print "cwd = $dir\n"; > bash-2.04$ Is the behavior different if you mount d: and access cd to the directory that way (or use the /cygdrive/d convention)? Larry Hall lhall AT rfk DOT com RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com 118 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com