Hi I carried out the following sequence of commands
$ for i in `cat /tmp/d`; do if [ -f $i.idx ]; then ls -l ${i}*; fi; done -rw-r--r-- 1 don None 0 Jun 17 1998 dtaq -rw-r--r-- 1 don None 3072 Jun 17 1998 dtaq.idx $ cp /dev/zero dtaq.idx The cp appeared to be hanging and the disc was rattling away, so in another window I typed in $ ls -l dtaq* -rw-r--r-- 1 don None 0 Jun 17 1998 dtaq -rw-r--r-- 1 don None 65307648 Jun 17 1998 dtaq.idx and you can see that the reported size of the target of the 'cp /dev/zero' has grown to a considerable size in a short time. Can anyone else reproduce this? Attaching cygcheck.log Cheers Don Sharp
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