File Synchronization

Brian Sassone brians@xwarecorp.com
Sun Jun 25 08:27:00 GMT 2000


Hi,
 
What type of file caching does Cygwin use and can 
it be disabled?
 
Here's my problem:
I mount a mapped drive from a local Linux 
machine. If I first run a script residing on this mount in 
Cygwin, then edit it on the linux machine, cygwin won't see any changes to 
that file unless I access it (touch or edit) first.  Executing the script 
again will yeild old results.
 
For example:
- A script on the mounted drive has one line: echo 
"Old"
- I run it in Cygwin and see "Old" 
echoed
- I edit it on the Linux system to be: echo 
"New"
- I run it in Cygwin and see "Old" 
echoed
- I touch the file in Cygwin and run it again and 
see "New" echoed
 

Sorry if this has been covered, but I found no info 
in the docs or archves.
 
Brian (Cygwin newbie)



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