Mounted text mode but acting binary

Vince Rice vr8ce@yahoo.com
Mon Aug 9 19:56:00 GMT 2004


I have a directory mounted text mode.  In that directory, I'm running a grep
looking for trailing spaces and/or tabs.  It's not finding any in a file that I
know has them, so I created a small file with one line and a trailing tab.  It
doesn't find that, either.  I changed the file from DOS line endings to Unix
line endings, and grep found it.

So, grep appears to be acting as if the current directory is binary mode, but
the mount table shows it as text mode.  What am I missing?

I'm on 1.5.10-3 on W2KSP2.  Here is the output of mount:
d:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck.exe on /bin/cygcheck type system (binmode,exec)
d:\cygwin\bin\cygcheck.exe on /bin/cygcheck.exe type system (binmode,exec)
e:\clients\iasg\csv on /e/clients/iasg/csv type system (textmode)
e:\mas\mmb\sql\ap on /e/mas/mmb/sql/ap type system (textmode)
d:\cygwin\bin on /usr/bin type system (binmode)
d:\cygwin\lib on /usr/lib type system (binmode)
d:\cygwin on / type system (binmode)
c: on /c type user (binmode,noumount)
d: on /d type user (binmode,noumount)
e: on /e type user (binmode,noumount)
k: on /k type user (binmode,noumount)
o: on /o type user (binmode,noumount)
s: on /s type user (binmode,noumount)

I'm in the e:\mas\mmb\sql\ap directory when I'm doing the grep.  I've confirmed
that grep is Cygwin's (which grep yields "grep is an external :
D:\cygwin\bin\grep.exe").  I've tried it both from cmd and from a bash prompt;
neither works.

I've also attached my cygcheck output if the above doesn't provide any hints.

Thanks,

Vince

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