From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: LD looks at zip drive
Date: Tue, 30 Dec 1997 08:41:10 +0100
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Colin Walsh wrote:
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> 
> My zip drive (which I've only had for a few days) does the same exact thing
> when I compile (and I'm not using RHIDE). I put the -v switch in and it occurs
> when ld is running. In the command line used to invoke ld there is no reference
> to any files being accessed on drive d:, also, there is no reference to anything
> on the drive in my path. I'm guessing tho' that no harm is being done and its
> just some sort of quirk of ld.
If I recall correctly, ld performs some stat()ing of the library path,
to see if it is contains symbolic links and other Unix'y issues.
So stat() has to check if some drives exist, or if they are mapped
to network drives. Much the same will happen to you if you run
df to find out some information about your drives. Eli can probably
tell you a lot more of the guts of stat() and when this effect happens.


-- 
Ciao
Tom

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