Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:53:32 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: lstat on FAT - Was: Problem with find on FAT drives Message-ID: <20040324155332.GF17229@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <4060B627 DOT 8000400 AT scytek DOT de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4060B627.8000400@scytek.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Mar 23 17:11, Volker Quetschke wrote: > $ ls -ldin tmp tmp/. > 2919335057 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 tmp/ > 2919335057 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 tmp/./ > > Looks pretty similar to me, but I was looking for the following: > > $ ls -ldin .\\tmp ./tmp > 2919335057 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 ./tmp/ > 2805415844195 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 .\tmp/ > > I came to that "program" by reducing the find soure to the bare > minimum to show that problem. > > So again, is this an expected/tolerated behaviour? Yes, it's by design. The answer is "don't use DOS paths". Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/