On May 14 19:44, Eric Blake wrote: > > Additional to a couple of bugfixes there's also a new feature which needs a > > bit of testing. You can now list servers in the machine's domain/workgroup > > with > > > > $ ls // > > > > and accessible disk shares on a server with > > > > $ ls //server > > AWESOME! Thanks for doing this; it even worked on my Win98 box, and > coreutils-5.3.0-6 `mkdir -p' now works flawlessly. There are still a couple > of caveats: > > First, the directory permissions of // and //server are 111 instead of 555, > which would make more sense since you now have a working readdir().
I've fixed it in CVS. > Second, directories on my XP share show as size 4294967295 on my win98 box: > $ ls -l //eblake > dr-xr-xr-x 0 eblake unknown 4294967295 Dec 31 1969 SharedDocs/ > drwxr-xr-x 0 eblake unknown 4294967295 Dec 31 1969 eblake_c/ > > But this is probably a pre-existing limitation of Win98 being unable to > stat() directories on remote machines, since it appears even when I access > directories through a drive letter as well. Yes, that's the root cause of the strange directory size, but it's actually a bug in Cygwin which missed to catch this situation and set the filesize back to 0. Fixed in CVS, too. > Also, it appears that cygcheck is doing work, but not printing any output. -v, please. It prints a lot of stuff for me. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- 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/
