On 17 August 2010 10:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 17 10:54, Lemke, Michael SZ/HZA-ZSB2 wrote:
>> On 17 Aug 2010 10:20:41 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On Aug 16 18:13, Andrew DeFaria wrote:
>> >> $ cat test.pl'
>> >> use warnings;
>> >> use strict;
>> >>
>> >> # Obviously non-existant server and file
>> >> my $file = "\\\\server\\path\\file";
>> >>
>> >> # Check for existance returns true for Cygwin - false for ActiveState
>> >> if (-e $file) {
>> >> print "true\n"
>> >> } else {
>> >> print "false\n"
>> >> }
>> >> $ perl test.pl
>> >> true
>> >> $ cqperl test.pl
>> >> false
>> >> $
>> >
>> >I can not reproduce your problem. I used "\\\\server\\path\\file"
>> >unchanged, as well as valid server and share names and just a
>> >non-existant file name. In both cases the script prints "false".
>> >And it prints "true" for an existing file, just as expected.
>>
>> Hm, I can reproduce it and it's even simpler, no perl involved:
>>
>> pc> [ -e //server/junk ] && date
>> Tue Aug 17 10:28:14 WEDT 2010
>> pc> ls -ls //server/junk
>> 0 -rw-r--r-- 1 lemkemch Domain Users 0 Dec 1 2006 //server/junk
>>
>> Here's no server called server.
>
> I can't reproduce, but I'm already running Cygwin 1.7.6. I have a vague
> memory that we already had a report along these lines and that I patched
> this at one point... I *think* that's what is successfully hidden
> behind the "Fix erroneous handling of devices in path checking." message
> in the announcement...
http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2010-06/msg00049.html
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