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RE: Bug. "File or path name too long"
- To: Derek Haskin <derek dot haskin at commerceone dot com>
- Subject: RE: Bug. "File or path name too long"
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 19:28:48 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: cygwin users <cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
--- Derek Haskin <derek.haskin@commerceone.com> wrote:
> Just want to make sure that you are aware that we purchased the Cygnus 1.0
> version as apposed to using the Cygnus beta version.
>
That just means that you already have the source code packaged in one place a
readily available. It's still an open source project.
> anyway here is another bug. the "mkdir -p" does not work with the
> /cygdrive/... format
> any clues.
>
I've not seen this reported before.
>
> "D:/Cygwin/bin/bash.exe"-2.03$ ls /cygdrive/d/builds
> home p4env sh_histo
>
> "D:/Cygwin/bin/bash.exe"-2.03$ mkdir -p /cygdrive/d/builds/des22/tmp/dsaf
> mkdir: cannot create directory `/cygdrive': No such file or directory
>
> "D:/Cygwin/bin/bash.exe"-2.03$ mkdir -p //d/builds/des22/tmp/dsaf
>
> "D:/Cygwin/bin/bash.exe"-2.03$ ls /cygdrive/d/builds
> des22 home p4env sh_histo
>
>
I'll have to give your scenario a whirl. BTW, please report to the list and
not directly to me. I'm simply a meer user lending some advice. If you report
to the list then you'll help everyone envolved with Cygwin.
Has anyone else on the list seen this before?
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Earnie Boyd: <mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com>
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