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Re: Problem: find not traversing /cygdrive/X properly?
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: Kevin Autrey <Kevin dot Autrey at pobox dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 14:29:35 +0000
- Subject: Re: Problem: find not traversing /cygdrive/X properly?
> Hi -
>
> After installing the latest updates on 2005-Oct-15 (those updates being
> whois, openssl, ncurses and cygwin-doc) - my "find" seems to be
> broken. I've searched the mailing lists for relevant posts but didn't see
> any relevant posts (but hey, searching for "find" turns up a lot of
> non-related hits!).
Nothing in that list looks like it would have made a difference. Are you
sure you didn't also pick up something else new?
>
> The find command was working fine before I installed the latest/greatest
> updates, but now I get this output from the command:
>
> >tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find /cygdrive/c -iname win.ini -type f
Works fine for me.
>
> My mounts look okay:
Actually, they don't.
>
> >tka-16:/cygdrive/p> mount
> >D:\cygWIN\bin on /usr/bin type system (textmode)
> >D:\cygWIN\lib on /usr/lib type system (textmode)
Yuck - you really want your bin and lib to be binmode.
>
> If you run the same command on "C:/", it works fine:
>
> >tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find c:/ -iname win.ini
> >find: c:/System Volume Information: Permission denied
> >c:/WINDOWS/win.ini
>
> The cygcheck information follows the sigtrace information.
This much information may have been better sent as an
attachment - 104k of inline text is a bit much.
>
> Here's the sigtrace (my comments are prefixed with "***"):
>
> > 35 35975 [main] find 2692 normalize_posix_path:
> > /cygdrive/.backupSettings = normalize_posix_path (.backupSettings)
>
> *** It's just normalized the path - but it omitted the drive ("c") portion
> from the full path
>
> > 33 36008 [main] find 2692 mount_info::conv_to_win32_path:
> > conv_to_win32_path (/cygdrive/.backupSettings)
Yes indeed, that looks weird. Are you sure your mounts are ok?
>
> And finally, here's the cygcheck output:
Which should ALWAYS be sent as an attachment.
> >cygwin 1.5.18-1
> >findutils 4.2.25-2
Those are the latest versions, so nothing obvious there.
--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer
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