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Re: weird find bug?
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: Scott Evans <gse at antisleep dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 10:50:03 -0400
- Subject: 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.
Larry Hall lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc. http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746 (508) 893-9889 - FAX
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