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Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 12:47:26 -0500
From: "Pierre A. Humblet" <pierre DOT humblet AT ieee DOT org>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: vpath search failures in Clearcase when files do actually exist
Message-ID: <20041110174726.GA247527@Worldnet>
References: <OF88A190FE DOT EDBDB1AE-ON87256F46 DOT 00816307-87256F48 DOT 0001D810 AT ca DOT ibm DOT com> <20041110005123 DOT GA8575 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx>
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On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:51:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:21:00PM -0500, Jeremy Broughton wrote:
> >Cyg ver:    1.3.10 (although I have reproduced the same problem with 1.5.7)
> >OS : Windows 2000
> >File system:   MVFS (running gnumake inside a Rational Clearcase dynamic
> >view)
> >cygcheck:   (See attached file: cygcheck.out)
> >
> >It appears as though there is a problem using the /cygdrive/m type paths
> >inside MVFS when there are extremely large dependency trees.
> 
> Unless you can point to problems with a standard, supported W2K filesystem,
> please don't expect anyone to try to fix this.
> 
> Cygwin uses standard Win32 APIs for detemining if something is a
> directory.  If those APIs are not working for Clearcase then it
> is unlikely that anyone will be motivated to fix the problem on
> the Cygwin side.

The OP was suggesting both a problem determining if something is a
directory and a problem related to pathnames.
Running strace my shed some light on the root cause.

To limit the output you could initially filter it like this:
strace something | grep -B 1 'st_mode=\|stat_worker: -1'

Pierre

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