Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

Fergus fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net
Mon Mar 1 11:09:00 GMT 2010


Weird or what.

My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a 
simple DOS dir command now shows a directory named . as in

M:\>dir /ad
  Volume in drive M has no label.
  Volume Serial Number is 4B6B-CC15

  Directory of M:\

01/03/2010  08:39    <DIR>          Recycled
05/02/2010  09:06    <DIR>          bin
05/02/2010  09:06    <DIR>          dev
05/02/2010  09:07    <DIR>          etc
01/03/2010  07:10    <DIR>          home
05/02/2010  09:15    <DIR>          lib
05/02/2010  09:15    <DIR>          opt
05/02/2010  09:15    <DIR>          sbin
05/02/2010  09:15    <DIR>          srv
05/02/2010  09:15    <DIR>          tmp
05/02/2010  09:55    <DIR>          usr
05/02/2010  09:55    <DIR>          var
01/03/2010  09:44    <DIR>          .
                0 File(s)              0 bytes
               13 Dir(s)   2,571,448,320 bytes free

The time stamp is identical to the most recent update (python-pyrex + 
lilypond + sysvinit):

dir \etc\setup \od

{many files}
27/02/2010  07:08               168 mintty.lst.gz
01/03/2010  09:42                10 timestamp
01/03/2010  09:44               913 python-pyrex.lst.gz
01/03/2010  09:44             2,138 lilypond.lst.gz
01/03/2010  09:44            69,046 installed.db
01/03/2010  09:44               303 sysvinit.lst.gz
01/03/2010  09:45               148 setup.rc


and I can only think that something strange happened during the update.

Meanwhile, even with a Linux rescue disk, I have no idea how to delete 
the extra directory. Consequences are that DOS commands like

dir /s
attrib /s

result in endlessly nested looped output

M:\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\ ... forever

. I haven't actually fully explored consequences within Cygwin, but I 
imagine they are non-optimal. The command
ls -al /
shows nothing out of the ordinary (e.g. there are not two occurrences of 
  the directory named .)

Any ideas on cause or cure? Cygcheck attached.

Thank you,

Fergus
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