From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11344 invoked by alias); 17 Jul 2014 20:07:52 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 11332 invoked by uid 89); 17 Jul 2014 20:07:51 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org Received: from mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org (HELO mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org) (204.13.248.72) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:07:50 +0000 Received: from pool-173-48-46-28.bstnma.fios.verizon.net ([173.48.46.28] helo=cgf.cx) by mho-02-ewr.mailhop.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1X7ry0-0000P1-Rg for cygwin@cygwin.com; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:07:48 +0000 Received: from ednor (ednor.casa.cgf.cx [192.168.187.5]) by cgf.cx (Postfix) with SMTP id 0CF82600CD for ; Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:07:47 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ednor (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Thu, 17 Jul 2014 16:07:46 -0400 X-Mail-Handler: Dyn Standard SMTP by Dyn X-Report-Abuse-To: abuse@dyndns.com (see http://www.dyndns.com/services/sendlabs/outbound_abuse.html for abuse reporting information) X-MHO-User: U2FsdGVkX1+ra/mnQzW9DPtao8i4FDgc Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2014 20:07:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Link count wierdness Message-ID: <20140717200746.GA3222@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <87oawnvovw.fsf@Rainer.invalid> <20140717183915.GT15332@calimero.vinschen.de> <87k37bvkib.fsf@Rainer.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87k37bvkib.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-SW-Source: 2014-07/txt/msg00201.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jul 17, 2014 at 09:43:40PM +0200, Achim Gratz wrote: >Corinna Vinschen writes: >> Netapp inode numbers are not reliable and thus the number of links isn't >> either. There's a check in Cygwin which is the result of the early >> Cygwin 1.7 development. It does not report the number of hardlinks >> and it fakes the inode numbers on netapp filesystems. > >Ah OK, that explains the wierd output from fstat. Is there a windows >program to query that information, perhaps? > >> The file system returns STATUS_INVALID_PARAMETER when calling >> NtQueryVolumeInformationFile(FileFsFullSizeInformation) for some >> reason. If you're set up to build your own Cygwin DLL, we could >> perform two or three really quick tests to find out if there's a way >> to workaround this issue in Cygwin. > >I am not yet but might be interested, is there a description somewhere >of what that takes? I would need to use Git (is it ready yet?) since >CVS gets blocked by the firewall and the various scrapers using CVSweb >don't really work that well. git isn't ready yet unfortunately. Can't you just download a recent snapshot? That should be good enough. FWIW, CVS is blocked at my work (ironically, it's NetApp) too but I use a ssh tunnel to work around that. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple