Re: Help. Cygwin corrupting files

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

Chuck wrote:
> Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > Have you checked if you can do similar operations with DOS commands?  I
> > believe what you're seeing here is a hardware (probably disk) problem.
> > Years ago I had a failing disk pick off files randomly for a while until
> > the whole thing finally went.
>
> Is there a way to run the "ls" command in debug mode so I can see
> exactly where it's failing? It might give me some indication of what's
> going on.

In Cygwin, there's strace to get a look at the system calls made by
Cygwin tools.  There's also file and process monitors from sysinternals
(now MS) that can provide some insight.

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A: Yes.
> Q: Are you sure?
>> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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