> >-----Original-Nachricht----- >Betreff: Re: diff -r won't recurse >Datum: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:29:40 +0200 >Von: "lemke...@t-online.de" <lemke...@t-online.de> >An: cygwin@cygwin.com > >>On Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:09:56 +0200 I wrote: >>On Fri, 03 Apr 2015 16:50:09 +0200 Andrey Repin wrote: >>>> I've got a strange problem: diff -r /d /g won't recurse into the two >>>> directories. /d and /g are the >>>> roots of two disks where /g is a clone (disk2vhd) of /d. ls -R and other >>>> tools have no problems >>>> to walk the tree. strace doesn't give me a clue. Any ideas? >>> >>Yes, that's what I expected. And Erwin Waterlander suggested: >>> there are no differences >>> ;) >> >>I wish it were so. Nevertheless (-s lists identical files): >>orion> diff -q -r -s /d/Program\ Files /g/Program\ Files >>orion> >> >>But >>orion> ls /d/Program\ Files /g/Program\ Files >>/d/Program Files: >>7-Zip GPS-Track-Analyse-6 >> PlotSoft >>... snipped. >> >>/g/Program Files: >>7-Zip GPS-Track-Analyse-6 >> PlotSoft >>... more snipped. >> >>I am sure this got something to do with this being on a cloned disk running >>in a XP >>virtual machine (vmplayer on Win 8,1). >> > >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? Thanks, Michael ---------------------------------------------------------------- Profitieren Sie von der sicheren E-Mail-Übertragung Ihrer Daten mit einer kostenlosen E-Mail-Adresse der Telekom. www.t-online.de/email-kostenlos -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
