bash problem b17.1 under Windows NT 4/NTFS

Mark Levine dynasens@tiac.net
Sat Mar 15 07:09:00 GMT 1997


At 19:50 97/03/14 -0800, you wrote:
>Mark Levine wrote:
>> 
>> I am running b17.1 under Windows NT 4.0.
>> 
>> The following command sequence when run under bash fails when running on an
>> NTFS file system:
>> 
>>         % cat >foo <<EOF
>>         > aaa
>>         > bbb
>>         > EOF
>>         bash.exe: 49069028: No such file or directory
>> 
>> The file foo is created but it is empty, the number in the error messages
>> sometimes is different, last few digits change.
>> 
>> The above works fine on a FAT file system partition.
>> 
>> As a result of this problem I can not build any of the GNU software from
>> source because the configure script will fail because of this problem.
>
..snip
>
>
>In other words, mkdir /tmp
>
>

I did have a /tmp mounted to G:\TEMP, / is mounted to F:\Cygnus, /usr is
mounted to F:\Cygnus\H-i386-cygwin32.  I also have a C partition (FAT), and
a D, E, F, G, T are all NTFS.  I had the above problem on the G partition
where I was trying to build some source, in a subdirectory under /tmp.
After much experimentation I remounted /tmp on my T partition and the
problem went away.  I am not sure why.

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