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Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:39:30 +1000 (EST)
From: luke DOT kendall AT cisra DOT canon DOT com DOT au
Subject: chown -R expanding / to //bin etc.
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Message-Id: <20040721073930.C5D6084CA3@pessard.research.canon.com.au>

I've noticed that if I do (*) a 

        chown -R administrator.SYSTEM /
        
then chown goes out onto the network and tries to access shares called
//bin, //var, //usr etc., and can block for long periods, too.

Now, I do understand that really I should be doing (**)

        chown -R administrator.SYSTEM `cygpath -w / | sed 's|\\|/|g'`

to restrict the chown to only affect Cygwin files anyway, but I'm still
interested in how the spurious //bin etc. names are generated.  (I.e.
whether that's actually a bug?)

Regards,

luke
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(*)
I'm trying to work around permission problems resulting from the Cygwin
*user* not being the same person as the cygwin *installer* on a machine.

(**)
Typically this would evaluate to:
	chown -R administrator.SYSTEM C:/Cygwin


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