3.0.7(0.338/5/3): Possible reference to Developer's instances of dev files in deployed build

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Dec  5 19:44, Ken Brown wrote:
> On 12/5/2019 2:16 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Dec  5 16:10, Ken Brown wrote:
> >> On 12/5/2019 7:52 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >>> The only problem here is that I can't reproduce the assertion failure.
> >>>
> >>> I created a Samba share on a Linux machine, mounted it as drive Z:,
> >>> and set the "always available offline" property of the drive.
> >>>
> >>> After syncing I accessed the drive, then I stopped Samba on the Linux
> >>> server to switch the drive into offline mode.  Then I ran `ls -la
> >>> /cygdrive/z'.  After a few secs I got the offline content cached on the
> >>> local machine.  I also tried `ls -la /cygdrive/' and `cd /cygdrive; ls
> >>> -la', but every time I got the expected output.  In the cases I tried
> >>> to list /cygdrive itself I got the expected output, all drives except
> >>> the z drive.
> >>>
> >>> I tried this with Cygwin 3.1.0-0.8.x86_64 on Windows 7 and Windows 10.
> >>>
> >>> So either there's something very special in Wilfed's setup, or I'm
> >>> doing something wrong.  Which is it?
> >>
> >> How does your strace output compare to Wilfed's when you list /cygdrive?  Does
> >> it show a failed attempt to list Z: with an error from NtCreateFile?
> > 
> > Not at all.  The strace doesn't show any attempt to open Z:.
> 
> Then I wonder what's different about Wilfed's setup that causes an attempt to 
> open Z: when it's offline.
> 
> I'm grasping at straws, but could the difference be related to the fact that his 
> drive Z: is not a Samba share?  Here's an excerpt from the mount output in one 
> of his earlier emails (when Z: is online):
> 
> V: on /cygdrive/v type smbfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> W: on /cygdrive/w type smbfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> X: on /cygdrive/x type smbfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> Y: on /cygdrive/y type smbfs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
> Z: on /cygdrive/z type cifs (binary,noacl,posix=0,user,noumount,auto)
>                         ^^^^

Maybe.  It would be nice to know what kind of drive this is.  "cifs"
in Cygwin means a remote drive, claiming to be NTFS, but not having
the expected FS flags of a real NTFS.

Wilfed, can you please run

  $ /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /cygdrive/z

while the drive is online.


Thanks,
Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer
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