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Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 14:10:42 -0500
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From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
Subject: Re: latest cygwin does not track pwd?
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At 01:57 PM 10/31/2000, Richard Y. Kim wrote:

>I updated to all latest files as of 10:30AM on October 31, 2000 from
>ftp.freesoftware.com as well as ftp.yggdrasil.com.
>
>I give two examples of how bash and/or cygwin1.dll gets confused about
>pwd.  First "ls -l ./foo" reports that ./foo does not exist.  However,
>"cat ./foo" prints out its old content!
>
>   bash-2.04$ cd d:/projects/apwin/tools/
>   bash-2.04$ ls -l ./foo
>   ls: ./foo: No such file or directory
>   bash-2.04$ cat ./foo
>   #!/usr/local/bin/perl
>   use Cwd;
>   my $dir = cwd;
>   print "cwd = $dir\n";
>   bash-2.04$ 

Is the behavior different if you mount d: and access cd to the directory 
that way (or use the /cygdrive/d convention)?


Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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