DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.4.2 sourceware.org F1FD4385E836
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: pagefile.sys is reported as being a directory
Date: Fri, 03 May 2024 01:40:18 +0200
Message-ID: <5705116.uoxibFcf9D@nimes>
MIME-Version: 1.0
From: Bruno Haible via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Reply-To: Bruno Haible <bruno AT clisp DOT org>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: "Cygwin" <cygwin-bounces+archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>

Hi,

Ken Brown noticed this: pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys are being
reported by Cygwin 3.5.3 as being directories.

Cygwin 3.5.3 on Windows 10:

$ ls -ld /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.*
drwxr-x--- 17664 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Jan  1  1601 /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys
$ ls -ld /proc/cygdrive/c/swapfile.*
drwxr-x--- 17664 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Jan  1  1601 /proc/cygdrive/c/swapfile.sys

In Cygwin 2.9.0 and 3.4.6 (also on Windows 10) it was reported
as a regular file:

$ ls -ld /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.*
-rw-r----- 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 671088640 May  3 01:25 /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys
$ ls -ld /proc/cygdrive/c/swapfile.*
-rw-r----- 1 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 268435456 May  3 01:25 /proc/cygdrive/c/swapfile.sys

Gnulib is interested in the modification time of this file.

Do you agree that it's a bug?

Do you have a workaround? In Gnulib we wish to have a way to access this file,
that works on all versions of Cygwin.

Bruno


-- 
Problem reports:      https://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ:                  https://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation:        https://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info:     https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple