On Oct 12 18:59, Barry Roberts wrote:
> I've used cygwin for lots of years, and this is kind of weird to me.
> My operations guys set up some Windows Server 2012 R2 servers with
> Cygwin x86-64 2.2.1.
> 
> There's a CIFS mount (from an HNAS) that I use a lot that is giving me
> problems.  For example:
> 
> $ ls /cygdrive/m/install
> ls: cannot access /cygdrive/m/install: Bad address

Would you mind to run strace in this scenario:

  $ strace -o ls.trace ls /cygdrive/m/install

and attach the ls.trace file here?

> 
> But:
> $ ls m:/install
> 
> Works just great.
> 
> Using /cygdrive/m I can list the contents of the root of the drive,
> but I can't read any files.  And any subdirectory just gives me the
> "Bad address" error.   Everything (except completion) works just fine
> with m:/ paths.
> 
> This isn't a huge deal.  I mostly use cygwin on these servers to
> manage them with scripts, so I've changed my configuration variables
> to <drive letter>: paths and everything seems to work.  But I did
> spend nearly half a day figuring this out, so I'm curious if there's a
> configuration problem or a known issue that my searches haven't
> uncovered yet.

Nothing I'd be aware of.


Thanks,
Corinna

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