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Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 18:11:17 +0200 (IST)
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Subject: Re: ls weirdness on root drive
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On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> We already knew that searches with the VOL bit didn't work under Win2K/XP
> on the root of a volume, and it now seems that other things may not work
> either in some rare situtations.  I have tried to reproduce the problem
> in other directories without luck.
> 
> I'll continue looking, but for now I have no recommendations.

One (obviously drastic) possibility would be to reset the volume bit when 
lstat calls findfirst on W2K/XP.  They lose the ability to see volume 
lables, but that's not a great loss, since volume labels are non-Posix, 
and `lstat' is a Posix function.