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Subject: Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 version
Date: Thu, 02 Mar 2006 08:37:34 -0800
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>From: Corinna Vinschen Subject: Re: Snapshot heads up for 20060301 2310 
>version
>Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 10:56:40 +0100
>
>On Mar  1 21:01, Karl M wrote:
> > Hi All...
> >
> > Just was not able to provide data earlier (from an XP PRO SP1 machine).
> > Here is from an XP PRO SP2 machine. Same result cd / makes the bash 
>window
> > disappear.
> >
> > Here is a cygcheck and an strace (output from "strace /bin/bash >file").
>
>The problem is that you mapped cygdrive to "/".  This resulted in a
>misguided strcpy.  I've fixed that, thanks for the cygcheck output
>and strace(*).
>
>However, you're aware of the problems with mapping cygdrive to "/", are
>you?  You'll never see the list of available drives since the special
>cygdrive handling can't kick in for the root dir.  This also results in
>a wrong link count for the root dir.  There's no easy way to fix that
>and it's definitely not of any priority to us to change this.
>
>
>Corinna
>
>(*) It would be nice if you could try to shorten an strace in a meaningful
>     way next time.  Hundreds of lines with
>     "--- Process 2480, exception C0000005 at 00000000
>     don't really add any useful information and just fill up people's
>     mailboxes.  Thanks.
>
I agree...sorry, not enough sleep.
>--
>Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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>Red Hat
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