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Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 13:16:19 +1000 (EST)
From: luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
Subject: Be careful of network drives under /cygdrive
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Message-Id: <20031022031619.744EA34C48@nevin.research.canon.com.au>

This may seem obvious to everyone, but when doing recursive file
operations starting at /, you need to remember that /cygdrive will lead
you to performing the file operation across whatever network drives you
have mapped.  (Just as you would under any Unix system when you mounted
drives.)

find / -xdev is a good option to remember.

In fact it's a good reason not to use the -R option on chown etc., and
instead to do find / -xdev -print0 | xargs -0 chmod ...

(AFAIK, you can't stop chmod, chown, etc., running across the network if
you use -R and start at /.)

luke


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