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From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon@yandex.ru>
To: "lemkemch@t-online.de" <lemkemch@t-online.de>, cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: diff -r won't recurse
Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 23:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <245921828.20150405024830@yandex.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <189698368655203b2bd9dcc6.25965034@email.t-online.de>

Greetings, lemkemch@t-online.de!

>>Clutching at straws (note the identical serial number, does it confuse Cygwin?):
>>
>> orion> /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /g
>>Device Type        : 7
>>Characteristics    : 20
>>Volume Name        : <ND D (HDD)>
>>Serial Number      : 3357258338
> ...
>>
>> orion> /usr/lib/csih/getVolInfo.exe /d
>>Device Type        : 7
>>Characteristics    : 20
>>Volume Name        : <ND D (HDD)>
>>Serial Number      : 3357258338

> This was it.  I changed the Volume Serial Number with a Sysinternals tool
> (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897436.aspx)
> and after a reboot diff now recurses into the directories in question.

> Now is this a Cygwin bug or am I doing something terribly unsupported?

Volume serial numbers are supposed to be unique... At least within one system
installation.


-- 
With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, April 5, 2015 02:47:47

Sorry for my terrible english...


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  reply	other threads:[~2015-04-04 23:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-03 14:18 lemkemch
2015-04-03 14:50 ` Andrey Repin
2015-04-04 18:10   ` AW: " lemkemch
2015-04-04 18:29     ` lemkemch
2015-04-04 19:27       ` lemkemch
2015-04-04 23:50         ` Andrey Repin [this message]
2015-04-05  1:51         ` Jeffrey Altman
2015-04-07  9:14           ` Corinna Vinschen
2015-04-03 19:41 ` Erwin Waterlander
2015-04-03 20:35   ` Andrey Repin

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