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Re: weird find bug?


At 02:33 PM 4/7/2002, Scott Evans wrote:
>I'm running on Win2000 using an up-to-date Cygwin install.  
>When I issue this command:
>   find /cygdrive/d
>
>The contents of the last directory on my D: drive aren't reported.
>for instance, if /cygdrive/d contains:
>   [d] $ ls -l
>   total 1673
>   drwxr-xr-x    4 scott    Domain U        0 Jul 24  2001 RECYCLER
>   drwxr-xr-x    1 scott    Domain U        0 Jul 23  2001 System Volume Information
>   drwxr-xr-x   21 scott    Domain U     8192 Apr  7 14:21 scott
>   drwxr-xr-x    3 scott    Domain U     4096 Mar 25 15:25 tmp
>   drwxr-xr-x   14 scott    Domain U     4096 Apr  3 10:01 workspace
>
>... the above find command finishes off with:
>   /cygdrive/d/tmp/hold/8347374.txt
>   /cygdrive/d/tmp/hold/99984984.txt
>   /cygdrive/d/workspace
>
>Even though the 'workspace' directory has lots of stuff in it!
>
>
>Meanwhile, if I add a directory to /cygdrive/d
>   $ mkdir /d/zzzzzz
>
>...then the 'workspace' directory is included in the output, but the
>'zzzzzz' directory's contents are not.  What's more, 'zzzzzz' has to
>be a directory; if it's a plain old file then find's output ends with
>
>
>This only seems to happen on "root" drive letter directories;
>I experimented in some sub-folders and couldn't break it. 
>   /cygdrive/d/tmp/hold/8347374.txt
>   /cygdrive/d/tmp/hold/99984984.txt
>   /cygdrive/d/workspace
>   /cygdrive/d/zzzzzz
>
>
>Can anyone else reproduce this one?


I'm not seeing it here.



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