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Date: Tue, 23 May 2000 12:53:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
Subject: Re: Snapshot 20000522
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--- Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 06:17:33AM -0700, Earnie Boyd wrote:
> >I'll work up a better report later but I wanted to give a heads up that
> >subjected snapshot has problems stat'ing a file.  Most evident with gdb. 
> >Falling back to 1.1.0 doesn't have this problem.
> 
> I've been running gdb all morning with no problem so it's not a simple
> problem, whatever it is.
> 

I still don't have a very good detail of this yet, however, this

--- Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com> wrote:
> After upgrading from 1.1.0 to 1.1.1, I started to experience problems
> using relative pathnames with mv when in my home directory:
> 
>     $ pwd
>     /home/jt
>     $ ls .foo 
>     .foo
>     $ mv .foo .foo2 
>     mv: cannot move `.foo' to `.foo2': No such file or directory
> 
> But, the following using absolute pathnames works:
> 
>     $ ls ~/.foo
>     /home/jt/.foo
>     $ mv ~/.foo ~/.foo2
>     $ ls ~/.foo2 
>     /home/jt/.foo2
> 
> And, so does using relative pathnames with mv in a directory other than
> my home directory:
> 
>     $ pwd
>     /tmp
>     $ ls .foo
>     .foo
>     $ mv .foo .foo2
>     $ ls .foo2 
>     .foo2
> 
> Note that the first case above works just fine under 1.1.0.
> 

and this,

--- Jason Tishler <Jason DOT Tishler AT dothill DOT com> wrote:
-8<-
> FYI, the current CygUtils version of zip does not properly handle
> absolute pathnames as in the following:
> 
>     $ zip -r jt.zip /home/jt # H:\ is mounted as /home/jt
> 
> It will treat /home/jt above as X:\home\jt, where X is your current
> drive, and not as H:\.  Hence, it is missing (at least) one call to
> cygwin_conv_to_win32_path.  But, cygwin_conv_to_win32_path chases
> symlinks...
> 

are related to my problem.  Running gdb on itself shows that the /home
reference doesn't convert properly to the real windows path.  Time for a
strace.

More later,

=====
---
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