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Re: diff -r won't recurse
- From: Andrey Repin <anrdaemon at yandex dot ru>
- To: "lemkemch at t-online dot de" <lemkemch at t-online dot de>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2015 02:48:30 +0300
- Subject: Re: diff -r won't recurse
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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.
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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, April 5, 2015 02:47:47
Sorry for my terrible english...
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