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Date: Sat, 17 Jul 2004 11:34:08 -0700
From: Joshua Daniel Franklin <joshuadfranklin AT gmail DOT com>
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Subject: Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?"
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On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:08:15 -0400, Larry Hall <cygwin-lh AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> At 07:54 AM 7/13/2004, you wrote:
> >> >Whilst this is not an issue with Cygwin per se, the nature of Cygwin
> >> >means that this issue will tend to arise commonly with Cygwin, and tend
> >> >not to arise under traditional unixes.
> >>
> OK, so your reference to "this issue" was not the find/-noleaf stuff you
> found but rather the more general issue regarding functionality and stability
> of features in Cygwin, given the differences in maturity.  Sure, I guess
> you could make that argument.  I thought you were implying that the
> find/-noleaf problem you ran into was the norm for ISO/UDF media with Windows
> and Cygwin yet not for Linux/UNIX.

Well, after spending a ridiculous amount of time playing around with
this (it was fun!),
I decided to add it to the "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?"
FAQ after all. It appears that Linux works around the '.' '..' UDF
problem at the filesystem driver level (that's kinda a guess, I only
have commercial DVDs to test), which of course Windows doesn't do. As
for other *nixes...well, they should read our FAQ. :)

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