Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Thu, 30 May 2002 13:11:38 +0200 From: Pavel Tsekov Reply-To: Pavel Tsekov Organization: Syntrex, Inc. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <07748651.20020530131138@syntrex.com> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: The road to 1.3.11 -- please try the latest snapshot In-Reply-To: <20020530032207.GA29644@redhat.com> References: <20020530032207.GA29644@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit CF> Reports of success or failure to the list, please. First of all I decided to try the new /proc filesystem - here are some things I have noticed and haven't seen them reported to the list so far (or I missed them): 1. Under /proc and /proc/registry you can "cd" to unexisting directories. paveltz@MORDOR ~ $ cd /proc/not_existing_dir paveltz@MORDOR /proc/not_existing_dir $ ls -l ls: .: Not a directory paveltz@MORDOR /proc/not_existing_dir Now if tou type "cd .." you get: paveltz@MORDOR /proc/non_existing_dir $ cd .. paveltz@MORDOR /proc/non_existing_dir/.. $ ls 104 140 1796 loadavg registry uptime 1144 1428 328 meminfo stat version paveltz@MORDOR /proc/non_existing_dir/.. $ cd .. paveltz@MORDOR /proc/non_existing_dir/../.. $ ls bin cygwin.ico home sbin test_mds_7.bpr usr cygwin.bat etc lib sys tmp var 2. Deleting a directory under /proc/registry/ takes enormous time if this directory has subdirectories. I tried to trace with strace since first I thought that some kind of infinite loop causes this behaviour, but then it turned out that "rm" is actually working - it just takes too much time to complete ... Most of the time is spent in the cygwin internal path conversion routines, trying to convert the POSIX path representation of the registry key/data into Win32 path name. Yes, I know this is read-only file system :) -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/