From: dynasens@tiac.net (Mark Levine) Subject: Re: bash problem b17.1 under Windows NT 4/NTFS 15 Mar 1997 11:10:46 -0800 Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970315130801.008f854c.cygnus.gnu-win32@sunspot.tiac.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Sender: dynasens@sunspot.tiac.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (32) Original-To: Jim Balter Original-Cc: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com 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 <> > 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. ************************************************************************ * * * Visit Our Web Page at: * * http://www.tiac.net/users/dynasens * * * *----------------------------------------------------------------------* * | * * Mark Levine | EMAIL: dynasens@tiac.net * * DynaSense Consulting Services | * * Framingham, MA 01701 | * * | * ************************************************************************ - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".