-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Keener on 1/18/2006 11:20 AM: > > When I attempt to do a find as in: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ > $ find / -name "*winrc*" -print > > I get the following: > > find: Filesystem loop detected; `/cygdrive/c/cygwin' has the same device > number > and inode as a directory which is 3 levels higher in the filesystem hierarchy.
Not a bug, but a feature of cygwin 1.5.19. You can surpress it by using the -xdev option to find (this makes find not traverse into a virtual /cygdrive, since it has a different devno, once again limiting your search to just the actual filesystem subtree under c:\cygwin rather than all drives and all cygwin virtual files). Also, -print is implied if you didn't use any of the other find actions: find / -xdev -depth -name "*winrc*" Furthermore, you can try seeing if the error message goes away if find never changes device number during the traversal (this is achieved by having a real /cygdrive rather than a virtual one): $ cd /cygdrive/c/cygwin # assuming, of course, that this is where / is $ mkdir cygdrive - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] volunteer cygwin findutils maintainer -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDz5/X84KuGfSFAYARAhowAJ9sMKEhZWgvrtK63um4fYHttJc1EQCfbzgn fKk5JNTgc0gVcKVC159p9ns= =2DqS -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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/
