-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Karl M on 3/2/2006 2:11 PM: >> >> However, you're aware of the problems with mapping cygdrive to "/", are >> you? You'll never see the list of available drives since the special >> cygdrive handling can't kick in for the root dir. This also results in >> a wrong link count for the root dir. There's no easy way to fix that >> and it's definitely not of any priority to us to change this. >> > What are the implications of having the wrong link count for the root dir?
Is the link count really wrong? The problem occurs when the link count of / is greater than 1, but is not exactly 2 more than the number of subdirectories returned by readdir. Then programs doing recursive traversal, such as find in findutils-4.2.27, fail to visit all subdirectories when they take the traditional optimization that they can stop stat'ing files to see whether there is another subdirectory to enter once link count - 2 subdirectories have been encountered (the other two link counts belong to . and ..). But if readdir doesn't list drive letters when 'cygdrive' is set to /, then the link count may be okay after all - now it is just the issue that ls and find won't even show drive letters when you list the contents of / (nor will tab-completion find drive letters, although there really isn't much sense in completing on a drive letter!). I personally don't mount cygdrive to /, so I don't know whether the latest snapshot gives a link count consistent with the number of subdirectories actually listed when doing readdir on /. - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEB7ex84KuGfSFAYARAqt5AKCvhasZcFqIx5UJo12WIp+Sm5GE4QCeN6sN vwLaeRnUEfzrVPJAZcz2EDs= =lsbU -----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/
