Bug in cvs cygwin1.dll ?

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Thu Jun 27 14:34:00 GMT 2002


On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 06:34:39PM +0100, Chris January wrote:
>>I don't think this is the problem.  This should actually be fixed in
>>the latest snapshot.
>
>Fair enough - my guess from the strace was that mv was stat'ing /c,
>finding it not there (because the cygdrive prefix is set to / and
>Cygwin is taking the directory listing of C:\Cygwin as authoritative
>for /) and trying to copy the file ggg as /c.

The problem was that FindFirstFile returns an error when given "c:\" as
its first argument.

AFAICT, the use of /c, /e, etc. was irrelevant.  In fact, just doing a
"ls /c" failed.

cgf

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