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Subject: Re: 'ls' can't find '.' in root directory
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On Dec 29 04:04, Lee Rothstein wrote:
> --
> $ ls
> ls: reading directory .: No such file or directory
> _C  _root_files  bin  dev  etc  home  lib  local  opt  sbin  srv
> tmp  usr  var  z  zup
> --
> Cygwin version: 1.7.9-1
> 
> Don't know when this problem started vis a vis updates. Attached is
> cygcheck output.

Usually this should only occur if the current directory doesn't exist.
Any interesting hint when stracing ls?  Does that also occur with a
recent snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ ?


Corinna

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