Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-02 Thread Michael Hennebry
On Mon, 1 Mar 2010, Thomas Wolff wrote: On 01.03.2010 16:24, Fergus wrote: etc all to no avail. And also I see the / after the listing: ls -al /m total 16 drwxr-xr-x 14 fergus ver_1.50 Jan 1 1970 ./ drwxr-xr-x 14 fergus ver_1.50 Jan 1 1970 ./ drwxr-xr-x 15 fergus ver_1.50

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Thomas Wolff
On 01.03.2010 16:24, Fergus wrote: ... >> Are you sure the directory name is really "."? Yes. I tried various mechanisms for testing this such as dir ". " rename ". " "mydir" etc all to no avail. And also I see the / after the listing: ls -al /m total 16 drwxr-xr-x 14 fergus ver_1.50 Ja

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 15:24, Fergus wrote: > >> On Windows XP I can't reproduce it either. Hmm. > > Windows XP SP3 is what I'm using. > > >> Are you sure the directory name is really "."? > > Yes. I tried various mechanisms for testing this such as > > dir ". " > rename ". " "mydir" > > etc all to no av

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 15:17, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op maandag 01-03-2010 om 13:41 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Corinna > Vinschen: > > > Oops. That was never really correct. Already in the old Cygwin 1.5 > > setup.exe the leading dot path ignored the /usr/bin and /usr/lib > > mounts to /bin and /lib.

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 14:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 1 13:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 1 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Mar 1 12:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > > On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote: > > > > > My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a > > >

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op maandag 01-03-2010 om 13:41 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Corinna Vinschen: > Oops. That was never really correct. Already in the old Cygwin 1.5 > setup.exe the leading dot path ignored the /usr/bin and /usr/lib > mounts to /bin and /lib. Ouch. I did experience weird things at times, but al

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 13:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 1 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 1 12:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote: > > > > My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a > > > > simple DOS dir command now shows a directory name

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 13:34, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote: > Op maandag 01-03-2010 om 12:32 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Corinna > Vinschen: > > > Jan, can you please fix your package not to have leading ./ in the path? > > Done. Thank you. > I'm quite sorry for the trouble - would however like to note > that

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Jan Nieuwenhuizen
Op maandag 01-03-2010 om 12:32 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Corinna Vinschen: > Jan, can you please fix your package not to have leading ./ in the path? Done. I'm quite sorry for the trouble - would however like to note that all my packages always had the leading dot. Just checked my guile p

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 13:05, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 1 12:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote: > > > My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a > > > simple DOS dir command now shows a directory named . as in > > > [...] > > > > Oh boy. I didn't ev

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 12:32, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote: > > My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a > > simple DOS dir command now shows a directory named . as in > > [...] > > Oh boy. I didn't even know that NT allows that. > > That's two bugs in on

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Fergus
.. just to confirm. Booting from a Linux live CD, and with Cygwin [1.7] located on a mobile drive mounted at /m, I get ~> ls -al /m total 635088 drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 . drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 . drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 0 2010-03-

Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update

2010-03-01 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 1 11:08, Fergus wrote: > Weird or what. > > My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a > simple DOS dir command now shows a directory named . as in > > M:\>dir /ad > Volume in drive M has no label. > Volume Serial Number is 4B6B-CC15 > > Directory of M:\ > >