Re: lstat on FAT - Was: Problem with find on FAT drives

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Mar 23 17:11, Volker Quetschke wrote:
> $ ls -ldin tmp tmp/.
> 2919335057 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006  513         0 Mar 10 13:06 tmp/
> 2919335057 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006  513         0 Mar 10 13:06 tmp/./
> 
> Looks pretty similar to me, but I was looking for the following:
> 
> $ ls -ldin .\\tmp ./tmp
> 2919335057    drwxr-xr-x 4 1006   513         0 Mar 10 13:06 ./tmp/
> 2805415844195 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006   513         0 Mar 10 13:06 .\tmp/
> 
> I came to that "program" by reducing the find soure to the bare
> minimum to show that problem.
> 
> So again, is this an expected/tolerated behaviour?

Yes, it's by design.  The answer is "don't use DOS paths".

Corinna

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