Hi Larry, Yes, that's exactly the problem I was reporting (with FAT32 in my case). I managed to get a 'cygwin-snapshot' to build so I guess that's the first step in developing a fix. Now comes the hard part, figuring out how to fix the problem!
If/when I have diffs can I just post them to this mailing list? Regards, David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "David O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:43 PM Subject: Re: Cygwin doesn't show .. in all directories > I don't see it when I just mount to a directory (i.e. "ls -al /usr/bin" > shows "." and ".."). I do see it if I mount a drive and then "ls -al" > the newly mounted directory, regardless of the format (well NTFS or FAT, > don't know about FAT32). Looks to me like the problem occurs if the > Win32 path contains the drive specification. But that's just the result > of some quick checking. > > > HTH, > > Larry > > At 10:28 PM 9/7/2003, David O'Shea you wrote: > >Hi all, > > > >I didn't see a response to this query. Can someone at least confirm > >that this appears to be a valid bug (just mount some directories and > >take a look I guess!)? Once that happens I can look at how to fix it. > >I had a quick look at the code a month ago and thought it would > >probably be hard to fix but I guess a challenge would be good :) > > > >Regards, > >David > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "David O'Shea" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 5:26 PM > >Subject: Cygwin doesn't show .. in all directories > > > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Apologies if this is old news, but I couldn't find mention of it in > >> the FAQ or mailing list archives. > >> > >> I have my F: mounted at /backup under Cygwin. When I 'ls -al > >/backup' > >> there is no '.' or '..' entry in /backup, I guess because they are > >not > >> there physically and hence not reported by Windows (FAT filesystems > >> never have a '.' or '..' in the root directory as far as I know). > >On > >> Linux, every directory, including the root directory '/', has a '.' > >> and '..' entry, so I guess for consistency they ought to be there. > >> > >> This is an issue for me because in MToolsFM, which allows you to > >> graphically browse your directories (plus browse directories via > >> 'mtools'), you go up a directory by double-clicking on a '..' entry > >in > >> the list of directory contents. I imagine that if MToolsFM was > >hacked > >> to show a '..' entry even if it didn't see one in the filesystem, > >> things would work, since 'cd ..' works fine when I am in the /backup > >> directory (I guess Cygwin doesn't actually look for the directory > >> entry '..', it just goes up a directory). > >> > >> Of course I don't know if it might be the case that applications > >> shouldn't assume that all *nix-ish platforms have a directory entry > >> pointing to the parent directory. Either way, please let me know! > >> > >> Thanks in advance, > >> David > >> > > > >-- > >Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > >Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > >FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > > -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
