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 Reply-To: Cygwin List Message-Id: <6.1.0.6.0.20040718125726.03344320@pop.prospeed.net> X-Sender: Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 12:59:27 -0400 To: Joshua Daniel Franklin , Cygwin List From: Larry Hall Subject: Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?" In-Reply-To: References: <010701c464f4$398e2030$4e6510ac AT ds DOT tao DOT co DOT uk> <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040708101741 DOT 033e4188 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> <02c101c468d0$31689400$4e6510ac AT ds DOT tao DOT co DOT uk> <6 DOT 1 DOT 0 DOT 6 DOT 0 DOT 20040713125440 DOT 0336edf8 AT pop DOT prospeed DOT net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" At 02:34 PM 7/17/2004, you wrote: >On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:08:15 -0400, Larry Hall 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. :) Thanks Joshua. That answers quite clearly my original question on this subject. Great work! -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 838 Washington Street (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- 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/