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From: Gernot Hillier <gernot DOT hillier AT siemens DOT com>
Organization: Siemens AG
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: mapping root directory to SystemDrive / CurrentDrive
Date: Tue, 3 Aug 2004 14:00:08 +0200
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Hi!

Am Dienstag, 3. August 2004 13:50 schrieb Corinna Vinschen:
> > Because I think it's not good when in such a situation open("/a/b")
> > refers to another file than stat("/a/b").
>
> Actually it doesn't in the first place.  stat() tries to open the file
> first, the same as when calling open().  But since the file doesn't exist,
> opening it fails and stat() falls back to standard Win32 calls which treat
> the path differently, as you observed.  If we wouldn't do that, another
> problem would occur; stat() would fail in cases where it shouldn't.  Ok,
> there might be a way to workaround that, but it would require somebody
> interested to patch it. http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PTC

Ah, thanks for the explanation!

> > I can imagine quite some problems caused in Linux programs by such
> > behaviour of the system...
>
> Keep in mind that this only happens if / isn't mounted -> back to
> undocumented behaviour.

Well, this is not undocumented. The case without mounts is explicitly 
documented on http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html which says "By 
default, the POSIX root / points to the system partition [...]". 

And this is (IMHO) a little bit in contrary to the current stat() behaviour...

But I certainly can see and understand your point that it requires some work 
which is not done yet... ;-)

-- 
Thx again,

Gernot Hillier
CT SE 2
Siemens AG, Mch P

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