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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ls: reading directory /cygdrive/c: No such file or directory
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On Dec 21 13:55, Michael Baierl wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >If I might venture a guess.  This is not a generic permission problem or
> >some sort of obvious bug in Cygwin, otherwise it should be reproducible
> >on my machine.  So the usual question applies here:  Are you running some
> >firewall-, anti-virus-, or Logitech web cam software?  See the mailing
> >list archives for how certain products interact badly with Cygwin.
> 
> You where sort of right. Some time ago I installed the
> 	Altiris Software Virtualization
> tool. "ls" works in all directories that are not used by Altiris. All
> directories that have an SVS layer don't work.
> 
> After some research I found this forum entry:
> http://forums.altiris.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=34551&enterthread=y
> which pointed me to
> http://juice.altiris.com/node/102
> 
> My ProgramIgnoreList entry now looks like this:
> [_B_]PROGRAMFILES[_E_]\NAVNT\rtvscan.exe
> [_B_]PROGRAMFILES[_E_]\Symantec_Client_Security\Symantec
> Antivirus\rtvscan.exe
> [_B_]PROGRAMFILES[_E_]\Symantec Antivirus\rtvscan.exe
> C:\cygwin\cygwin.bat
> C:\cygwin\bin\bash.exe
> C:\cygwin\bin\rsync.exe
> 
> But (similar to the forum entry) it does not work...
> 
> Does this information maybe help you to debug the problem so we can make
> all cygwin tools work without adding them to the ProgramIgnoreList?

Nope.  This looks rather messy.  If there's no way of defining
a whole directory to take out of the equation, it's quite useless.
There's nothing Cygwin can do against this stuff which apparently
intercepts kernel API calls.  It's their call.


Corinna

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