Problem: find not traversing /cygdrive/X properly?

[Kevin Autrey]

Hi Chris -

I always put "." in the front of my path so that as I'm developing an app, 
I always pick up the devel version in my current working directory instead 
of /usr/local/bin.  I know it's not the most secure thing in the world, but 
I'm on a stand-alone, single-user system, so the security risks are manageable.

Just to try something, I modified my path to only include "/usr/bin" - no 
difference:

>tka-16:/cygdrive/p> set path = "/usr/bin"
>tka-16:/cygdrive/p> which find
>/usr/bin/find
>tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find /cygdrive/c -iname win.ini
>find: .: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/.backupSettings: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/AUTOEXEC.BAT: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/boot.ini: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/CONFIG.SYS: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/IO.SYS: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/Log.txt: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/MSDOS.SYS: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/NTDETECT.COM: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/ntldr: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/PRIOR_SYSTEM: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/Program Files: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/RECYCLER: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/System Volume Information: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/Temp: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/tomsteady.ini: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS: No such file or directory
>find: /cygdrive/c/xPos.txt: No such file or directory


Per Eric's suggestion from last week, I did change my mount types to -b:

>tka-16:/cygdrive/p> mount -m
>mount -f -s -b "D:/CygWIN/bin" "/usr/bin"
>mount -f -s -b "D:/CygWIN/lib" "/usr/lib"
>mount -f -s -b "D:/CygWIN" "/"
>mount -s -b --change-cygdrive-prefix "/cygdrive"

Very strange...

Kevin




At 04:02 10/24/2005  (Monday), Chris Taylor wrote:
>Kevin Autrey wrote:
>>I tried the lastest snapshot cygwin.dll - no changes - find still failed.
>>So, I bit the bullet and re-installed my Cygwin installation.  Same 
>>problem:  I can't do a 'find' from a top-level /cygdrive/X directory (and 
>>it seems to affect ONLY 'find' when searching from the top-level 
>>/cygdrive/X mount point).
>>When I do a 'find' command (in bash or tcsh):
>>
>>>tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find /cygdrive/c -iname cdplayer.ini
>>>find: .: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/.backupSettings: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/AUTOEXEC.BAT: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/boot.ini: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/CONFIG.SYS: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/IO.SYS: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/Log.txt: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/MSDOS.SYS: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/NTDETECT.COM: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/ntldr: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/PRIOR_SYSTEM: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/Program Files: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/RECYCLER: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/System Volume Information: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/Temp: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/tomsteady.ini: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS: No such file or directory
>>>find: /cygdrive/c/xPos.txt: No such file or directory
>>
>>If I search a specific directory from the /cygdrive/X directory, it works:
>>
>>>tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find /cygdrive/c/windows -iname cdplayer.ini
>>>/cygdrive/c/windows/CDPLAYER.INI
>>
>>
>>If I do 'find' on the "C:/" directory it works:
>>
>>>tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find C:/ -iname cdplayer.ini
>>>C:/WINDOWS/CDPLAYER.INI
>>
>>What's interesting is that if I do a 'find' on "/cygdrive/c/.", it also 
>>works!
>>
>>>tka-16:/cygdrive/p> find /cygdrive/c/. -iname cdplayer.ini
>>>/cygdrive/c/./WINDOWS/CDPLAYER.INI
>>
>>
>>Does this clarify the problem or give more clues as to what might be 
>>going on? Is anyone else having this problem?
>>Kevin
>
>Well, I've just tested this myself, and the only error I get is the normal 
>permission denied on system volume information.
>I should mention that I updated my cygwin installation on Thursday or 
>Friday last week..
>
>There are two things I'm wondering though...
>Where is this . in your PATH coming from? (it's in your cygcheck output)
>Also, have you tried making the /cygdrive/X mounts binmode?
>Mine show up in mount like:
>c: on /cygdrive/c type system (binmode,noumount)
>
>Might be worth testing it that way?
>
>Chris
>
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