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Re: /cygdrive improvements

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On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:35:34PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Sat, Nov 24, 2001 at 09:14:27PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Thu, Nov 22, 2001 at 01:06:43AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> > The only thing wrong with this currently is that zsh times out trying to
>> > read the floppy drive the first time.
>> 
>> It does on empty CD-ROMs and any kind of removable media drives, too.
>> That is, three times the "no media" message on my XP box.  I like this
>
>Oh, I just found that the `no media' message doesn't happen with
>the patch I've sent a few minutes ago.  Now they are not shown as
>
>/cygdrive/a: no medium
>
>but as
>
>dr-xr-xr-x    6 root     root            0 Jan  1  1970 a
>
>The drives are still accessed, though but that's probably only a
>problem for floppies.

Does the current CVS do this?

I seemed to notice some messages the first time I tried the patch
but then they disappeared.  I think that Windows is somehow caching
the fact that the drive is off-line.

cgf


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