cygwin 1.7.6: find skipping over some directories on NTFS mount points
Rolf Campbell
rcampbell-cygwin@dragonwaveinc.com
Thu Aug 19 21:36:00 GMT 2010
On 2010-08-19 12:28, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/19/2010 08:43 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> Hmm, digging through Cygwin's readdir code, I have a vague idea.
>>
>> Eric, does find honor the struct dirent d_type flag? I'm wondering
>> if d_type is erroneously set to DT_REG for some reason. If so, we
>> could find this out by augmenting the debug output in the Cygwin DLL.
>
> find (but not oldfind) relies heavily on the d_type flag. If that flag
> is incorrect, it could explain why find gets lost. Could you repeat the
> experiment with 'oldfind' and see if that behaves better?
oldfind displays all 100,000 files.
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