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 Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 22:16:06 -0500 From: "Pierre A. Humblet" To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: vpath search failures in Clearcase when files do actually exist Message-ID: <20041111031606.GA694929@hpn5170> References: <20041110005123 DOT GA8575 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <20041110174726 DOT GA247527 AT Worldnet> <20041110180944 DOT GA17694 AT trixie DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041110180944.GA17694@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 01:09:47PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:47:26PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: > >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. > > Would it have made you feel better if I had said "for dealing with paths > and determining if something is a directory"? The "related to pathnames" was refering to the last paragraph in the initial post, which points to Cygwin (although I can't imagine how): " As shown above, using vpath . ../.. /cygdrive/m/top fails, even though it should work. Using vpath . /cygdrive/m/top fails with the same errors as above. However, vpath . M:/top succeeds in the dependency check, even though M:/top should apparently be written as /cygdrive/m/top to comply to cygwin standards." > If the OP is willing to do this then I hope he does it on a standard > filesystem like NTFS, as I originally suggested. If there is a problem > there then it is obviously not a ClearCase problem. Right. But then if it is a ClearCase problem, it can't be identified... My request would be to trace under the latest Cygwin. Pierre -- 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/