RE: question (latest "stable" dll?) + bugs: vim, bash, gcc, cp, find, less, zip, ls

["Lincoln, W. Terry" <terryl@ultimatetechnology.com>]

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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>    Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1999 19:09:05 -0400
>    From: Phil Edwards <pedwards@jaj.com>
>
>
>    I'll add/respond to the few that I've encountered.
>
>    > 4) find is broken across mounts.  find clearly can see the
   -- Snip --
>
>    I've had the same thing happen to me while trying to run updatedb.
>    Nothing ever got written to the temp file, by the way, so if you
>    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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> Ian Zimmerman
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