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Re: Reference to absolute path seems broken.
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 2:48 PM, Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> wrote:
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> According to Mathijs Romans on 2/29/2008 6:42 AM:
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> | (ERROR)
> | Mathijs@chef /
> | $ diff /Cygwin.bat Thumbs.db
> | /usr/bin/diff: /Cygwin.bat: No such file or directory
> |
> | Notice the slash before Cygwin.bat. Is this normal?? Other commands
> | such as 'ls' work fine.
>
> The slash before the file name in the error message is normal - diff uses
> the file name you typed in generating its message. However, why the diff
> was unable to find the file by its absolute name is not normal - I
> couldn't reproduce it, so there is something different about your / than
> there is for mine. Running strace may shed some light on this, as well.
Thanks for your quick answer. I first tried to run strace which gave
no output at all. Only then I realised there might be a windows
command 'diff' and I was running that one. So I installed diffutils
with the great Cygwin packagemanager. Then I got the strace output and
the same error. Then I restarted Cygwin, and now the error is gone!
(OK)
Mathijs@chef /
$ diff /Cygwin.bat Cygwin.ico
Files /Cygwin.bat and Cygwin.ico differ
The combination of posix/windows is terribly confusing for me
sometimes. Thanks again for your help!
Mathijs
>
> | Can somebody help me?
> |
>
> We need 'cygcheck -svr' output, as a text attachment, to learn more about
> your /.
>
> | Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html
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> Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
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> Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
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