Problem with cat under bash shell

[Lionel Barnett]

Dave Korn wrote:
>>
>> --- Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin SPROING! cygwin WHIZZ! com> wrote: 
>>
>>>On Sep 16 10:47, Lionel Barnett wrote:
>>>
>>>> --- Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin OOPS! cygwin SPLAT! com> wrote: 
> 
>   Hey Lionel, read http://cygwin.com/acronyms#PCYMTNQREAIYR, let's not feed
> the spam harvesters huh?

Oops, my bad... new account (I would've thought, though, that any 
self-respecting spambot could parse "blah at blah dot blah" pretty easily).

>   Ah!  Gottit!  Well, looks like my guess wasn't right.....
> 
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;837665

>   Lionel, is your server win 2003?  If so, there's a hotfix for the problem
> at the above page.

No, it's W2K, actually.

>   The fact that mounting your /tmp on a remote drive is a pretty rare thing
> would be another reason.  Remote home dirs, yes, remote /bin dirs yes,
> remote /tmp...... not so commonly done.  Owing to a) there's generally no
> need nor use for sharing the contents of /tmp with other users and b) it
> gets used pretty heavily and mostly for temporary files and data that are
> going to be needed again imminently, so for efficiency purposes it would be
> nice if the data didn't have to make a round-trip across the network to a
> server and then back again when it could just stay on your local machine
> where it's needed in the first place.

Agreed - things are actually noticeably zippier with a local /tmp 
(particularly as our network is somewhat crapulous).

As to how/why we ended up with a remote /tmp is as follows: our work 
setup is that most of our (shared) software - including Cygwin - sits on 
a shared drive on machine S, say. We generally terminal serve in to 
machines A, B, C, ... over the network and run stuff from there (which 
may access fs's on machines X, Y, Z...). Now since the default Cygwin 
install sets up /tmp as... well, /tmp, under our setup this means /tmp 
sits on machine S which will be remote as far as machines A, B, C are 
concerned. I wouldn't have thought this to be such an uncommon setup.

Hence the solution to symlink /tmp to /cygdrive/c/temp, as this is 
guaranteed to be local. Perhaps this could get a mention in the 
FAQ/Install notes?

Lionel


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