From: "Lincoln, W. Terry" <terryl@ultimatetechnology.com>
To: "'itz@lbin.com'" <itz@lbin.com>, "'pedwards@jaj.com'" <pedwards@jaj.com>
Cc: "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" <cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com>,
"'John.Wiersba@medstat.com'" <John.Wiersba@medstat.com>
Subject: RE: question (latest "stable" dll?) + bugs: vim, bash, gcc, cp, find, less, zip, ls
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:10:00 -0000 [thread overview]
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Title: RE: question (latest "stable" dll?) + bugs: vim, bash, gcc, cp, find, less, zip, ls
> -----Original Message-----
> From: itz@lbin.com [ mailto:itz@lbin.com ]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 1:59 PM
> To: pedwards@jaj.com
> Cc: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com; John.Wiersba@medstat.com
> Subject: Re: question (latest "stable" dll?) + bugs: vim,
> bash, gcc, cp,
> find, less, zip, ls
>
>
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>Â Â Â Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:09:05 -0400
>Â Â Â From: Phil Edwards <pedwards@jaj.com>
>
>
>Â Â Â I'll add/respond to the few that I've encountered.
>
>   > 4) find is broken across mounts. find clearly can see the
  -- Snip --
>
>Â Â Â I've had the same thing happen to me while trying to run updatedb.
>Â Â Â Nothing ever got written to the temp file, by the way, so if you
>Â Â Â were thinking of running locate/updatedb, don't.
>
> There's a workaround for updatedb: use the --netpaths option. For
> instance, updatedb --netpaths=//d/. You'll probably need --netuser as
> well.
>
> But both these problems are symptoms of a bug in the path translation
> layer that was only addressed on March 28. A simpler way to
> demonstrate the problem is just to create a mount point and try to
> access a file below it with a relative path. A real killer bug IMHO
> but MHO doesn't count :-)
I am afraid I too agree that this is pretty much a utility killer of a bug. Perhaps this will someday be addressed and a real solution will be put forth. This BUG has crippled many of my out-of-box porting attempts. :-(
>
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next reply other threads:[~1999-06-30 22:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-06-22 12:09 Lincoln, W. Terry [this message]
1999-06-22 13:36 ` question (latest "stable" dll?) + bugs: vim, bash, gcc, cp, f ind, " Chris Faylor
1999-06-30 22:10 ` Chris Faylor
1999-06-30 22:10 ` question (latest "stable" dll?) + bugs: vim, bash, gcc, cp, find, " Lincoln, W. Terry
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1999-06-23 6:19 Lincoln, W. Terry
1999-06-30 22:10 ` Lincoln, W. Terry
1999-06-22 13:57 John Wiersba
1999-06-22 14:07 ` DJ Delorie
1999-06-30 22:10 ` DJ Delorie
1999-06-30 22:10 ` John Wiersba
1999-06-22 11:57 John Wiersba
1999-06-22 13:41 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-06-30 22:10 ` Christopher Faylor
1999-06-30 22:10 ` John Wiersba
1999-06-21 15:59 Phil Edwards
1999-06-21 16:32 ` Brendan Simon
1999-06-30 22:10 ` Brendan Simon
1999-06-22 11:00 ` itz
1999-06-30 22:10 ` itz
1999-06-30 22:10 ` Phil Edwards
1999-06-21 15:40 John Wiersba
1999-06-30 22:10 ` John Wiersba
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