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Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 06:24:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: /usr Path problems [WAS: [RFD]: Using a new feature of Win2K for symlinks]
To: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>,
        cygdev <cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com>
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--- Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp> wrote:
-8<-
> A windows path can't revert to the original posix path via
> conv_to_win32_path. So the mechanisms depending only on win32
> paths can break some apps. For example, the current implementation
> of getcwd() breaks `du' and `find' executed in the directory `/usr'.
> I'm afraid your approach will cause this kind of problem.
> ____

Can you refresh my memory is to what problems du and find have executing in
/usr?  I tried `cd /usr && du .; find . -name bash.exe; find . -name foobar'
and didn't see any problems.  This is with the 06-01 snapshot.

Cheers,

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   Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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