Problem: find not traversing /cygdrive/X properly?

[Chris Taylor]

Kevin Autrey wrote:
> Hi Chris -
> 
> I always put "." in the front of my path so that as I'm developing an 
> app, I always pick up the devel version in my current working directory 
> instead of /usr/local/bin.  I know it's not the most secure thing in the 
> world, but I'm on a stand-alone, single-user system, so the security 
> risks are manageable.

Fair enough. Just seemed odd (I didn't think for a moment it could cause 
the problem.. Just out of place).

> 
> Just to try something, I modified my path to only include "/usr/bin" - 
> no difference:
> 
>> tka-16:/cygdrive/p> set path = "/usr/bin"
>> tka-16:/cygdrive/p> which find
>> /usr/bin/find
>> tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find /cygdrive/c -iname win.ini
>> find: .: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/.backupSettings: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/AUTOEXEC.BAT: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/boot.ini: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/CONFIG.SYS: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/IO.SYS: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/Log.txt: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/MSDOS.SYS: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/NTDETECT.COM: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/ntldr: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/PRIOR_SYSTEM: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/Program Files: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/RECYCLER: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/System Volume Information: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/Temp: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/tomsteady.ini: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS: No such file or directory
>> find: /cygdrive/c/xPos.txt: No such file or directory
> 
> 
> 
> Per Eric's suggestion from last week, I did change my mount types to -b:
> 
>> tka-16:/cygdrive/p> mount -m
>> mount -f -s -b "D:/CygWIN/bin" "/usr/bin"
>> mount -f -s -b "D:/CygWIN/lib" "/usr/lib"
>> mount -f -s -b "D:/CygWIN" "/"
>> mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive"

Could you paste the current output of mount ?

> 
> Very strange...

Indeed.
As I recall, you said you'd tried reinstalling cygwin..
Was this from the same source?
Actually.. Hrm..
*ponders*
I wonder if it's a permissions thing..
What user class do you run cygwin as, and what are your user/group 
permissions on C:, D: etc?


Chris

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