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Re: What's going on here with directory contents?


On Thu, 24 Oct 2002, CBFalconer wrote:

> I get the following from the bash shell:
>
> > chuck@AEYRIEONE ~
> > $ which whatis
> > /usr/bin/whatis
> >
> > chuck@AEYRIEONE ~
> > $ ls -lap /usr/bin/wha*
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 chuck    unknown      1743 Apr 20  2000 /usr/bin/whatis
> >
> > chuck@AEYRIEONE ~
> > $ ls -lap /bin/wha*
> > -rwxr-xr-x    1 chuck    unknown      1743 Apr 20  2000 /bin/whatis
>
> however I find the following from the DOS/4dos shell:
>
> > [1] c:\cygwin>dir /a: usr\bin\
> >
> >  Volume in drive C is WD30-PRI41     Serial number is 3CE4:239B
> >  Directory of  C:\cygwin\usr\bin\*
> >
> > 10-11-02   4:09         <DIR>    .
> > 10-11-02   4:09         <DIR>    ..
> >               0 bytes in 0 files and 2 dirs
> >
> > [1] c:\cygwin>dir /a: bin\wha*
> >
> >  Volume in drive C is WD30-PRI41     Serial number is 3CE4:239B
> >  Directory of  C:\cygwin\bin\wha*
> >
> >  4-20-00  20:51           1,743  whatis
> >           1,743 bytes in 1 file and 0 dirs    4,096 bytes allocated
>
> In other words the apparent directories existing under cygwin are
> actually empty!  For my own peace of mind I would like to know
> what machinations are occurring :-)

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