X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <487B89EA.7060503@cygwin.com> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:16:26 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070505 Remi/2.0.0.0-3.fc4.remi Lightning/0.8 Thunderbird/2.0.0.0 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive References: <7CDD82AEE5144D60961BDAD9B1C1A40D AT cit DOT wayne DOT edu> <4877A0FE DOT 1070002 AT cygwin DOT com> <4877B123 DOT 3080409 AT cygwin DOT com> <4877D782 DOT 4000308 AT cygwin DOT com> <15E6E2FA521344A3B74D38BA78E2D7DF AT cit DOT wayne DOT edu> In-Reply-To: <15E6E2FA521344A3B74D38BA78E2D7DF@cit.wayne.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 Lee Maschmeyer wrote: >> OK, so perhaps your problem and the Windows path shown by 'cygcheck' >> are two >> different issues. > > My problem is _precisely_ the Windows path shown by cygcheck. Everything > _except_ Cygwin (as shown by cygcheck) is correct as far as I can see. Actually, you showed me the path that 'bash' has and it contains no reference to the 'a' drive in any form. Since you run from a shell, this is the path that's important. It may be coincidence or it may be one externalization of the bug you're seeing but the Windows path shown by 'cygcheck' has no bearing on the path that the shell sees. Said another way, if 'cygcheck' has a bug that ends up showing you a faulty path here, that would have no effect on anything else Cygwin. So what we've covered so far doesn't provide a clear reason for the behavior you're seeing. >> I'm back to not being sure why you're seeing accesses on >> your floppy drive. Maybe if you straced a simple operation, you might be >> able to tell us who, what, when, why, and/or how the floppy drive gets >> accessed. > > Attached is the output of the command: > > strace -o strace_ls.log ls 1.7-log.txt > > I don't think it tells us anything we didn't know. Cygwin, down under > the hood, thinks Windows is on a: but all its variables show that it's > on c:, as do Windows variables. To me this suggests that there could be a problem with getwinenv() but I can't say more than that at the moment. -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/