Re: Problem: find not traversing /cygdrive/X properly?

[Kevin Autrey <Kevin dot Autrey at pobox dot com>]

Hi Chris -

I always put "." in the front of my path so that as I'm developing an app, 
I always pick up the devel version in my current working directory instead 
of /usr/local/bin.  I know it's not the most secure thing in the world, but 
I'm on a stand-alone, single-user system, so the security risks are manageable.

Just to try something, I modified my path to only include "/usr/bin" - no 
difference:

> tka-16:/cygdrive/p> set path = "/usr/bin"
> tka-16:/cygdrive/p> which find
> /usr/bin/find
> tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find /cygdrive/c -iname win.ini
> find: .: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/.backupSettings: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/AUTOEXEC.BAT: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/boot.ini: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/CONFIG.SYS: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/IO.SYS: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/Log.txt: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/MSDOS.SYS: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/NTDETECT.COM: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/ntldr: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/PRIOR_SYSTEM: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/Program Files: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/RECYCLER: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/System Volume Information: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/Temp: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/tomsteady.ini: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS: No such file or directory
> find: /cygdrive/c/xPos.txt: No such file or directory


Per Eric's suggestion from last week, I did change my mount types to -b:

> tka-16:/cygdrive/p> mount -m
> mount -f -s -b "D:/CygWIN/bin" "/usr/bin"
> mount -f -s -b "D:/CygWIN/lib" "/usr/lib"
> mount -f -s -b "D:/CygWIN" "/"
> mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive"

Very strange...

Kevin




At 04:02 10/24/2005  (Monday), Chris Taylor wrote:
> Kevin Autrey wrote:
> > I tried the lastest snapshot cygwin.dll - no changes - find still failed.
> > So, I bit the bullet and re-installed my Cygwin installation.  Same 
> > problem:  I can't do a 'find' from a top-level /cygdrive/X directory (and 
> > it seems to affect ONLY 'find' when searching from the top-level 
> > /cygdrive/X mount point).
> > When I do a 'find' command (in bash or tcsh):
> >
> > > tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find /cygdrive/c -iname cdplayer.ini
> > > find: .: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/.backupSettings: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/AUTOEXEC.BAT: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/boot.ini: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/CONFIG.SYS: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/IO.SYS: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/Log.txt: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/MSDOS.SYS: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/NTDETECT.COM: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/ntldr: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/PRIOR_SYSTEM: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/Program Files: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/RECYCLER: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/System Volume Information: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/Temp: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/tomsteady.ini: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS: No such file or directory
> > > find: /cygdrive/c/xPos.txt: No such file or directory
> >
> > If I search a specific directory from the /cygdrive/X directory, it works:
> >
> > > tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find /cygdrive/c/windows -iname cdplayer.ini
> > > /cygdrive/c/windows/CDPLAYER.INI
> >
> >
> > If I do 'find' on the "C:/" directory it works:
> >
> > > tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find C:/ -iname cdplayer.ini
> > > C:/WINDOWS/CDPLAYER.INI
> >
> > What's interesting is that if I do a 'find' on "/cygdrive/c/.", it also 
> > works!
> >
> > > tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find /cygdrive/c/. -iname cdplayer.ini
> > > /cygdrive/c/./WINDOWS/CDPLAYER.INI
> >
> >
> > Does this clarify the problem or give more clues as to what might be 
> > going on? Is anyone else having this problem?
> > Kevin
>
> Well, I've just tested this myself, and the only error I get is the normal 
> permission denied on system volume information.
> I should mention that I updated my cygwin installation on Thursday or 
> Friday last week..
>
> There are two things I'm wondering though...
> Where is this . in your PATH coming from? (it's in your cygcheck output)
> Also, have you tried making the /cygdrive/X mounts binmode?
> Mine show up in mount like:
> c: on /cygdrive/c type system (binmode,noumount)
>
> Might be worth testing it that way?
>
> Chris
>
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