Re: Fwd: findutils bug

[rowol]

> Did you mean to send a zero-byte strace.txt file as an attachment?
> It looks empty to me, at least.

I've attached it again...

Thanks,
Ross

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> James.
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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: address@hidden <address@hidden>
> Date: Apr 2, 2006 7:39 PM
> Subject: Re: findutils bug
> To: James Youngman <address@hidden>
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>> On 4/1/06, Ross Wolin <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Hi,
>>>    I'm having a problem using cygwin's find on WinXP.    It works fine
>>> when I
>>>    run it on a local drive, but when I run it on my network drive, it
>>> tells me
>>>    directories don't exist, i.e.
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>> What about plain files?
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> Find does find the plain files on the network drive - but it's giving
> errors on the directories, saying they don't exist.
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>> Do the things that apparently don't exist
>> actually exist?
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> Yes - I have used the files on that server for several years.
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>>Is there a difference in the cases of the names?
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> A few directory names contain upper case letters but most of them are all
> lower case.
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>>>      V:\>find
>>>      .
>>>      ./mp3
>>>      find: ./mp3: No such file or directory
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>> Can you reference ./mp3 (spelled exactly like that, with the leading
>> dot-slash) from the same working directory?
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> Yes.
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>> Does the problem happen if you run find on the local disk of the
>> Cygwin box?
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> No
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>> What about if you run find against a Samba sever running
>> something other than FreeBSD, or if you run it against an installation
>> of Samba with the default configuration or a different version of
>> Samba?
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> I only have one Samba server and don't really want to reconfigure it.
> It's used for my business and has worked for years with Win98, WinNT,
> WinXP, Debian Linux, and FreeBSD.
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> I just recent started using the igrep package with XEmacs, which calls
> find and grep, and that's when the problems started.
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>> See above for some ideas.  If strace or ltrace work on Cygwin, those
>> might provide useful diagnostics.   Also, try asking for help on the
>> Cygwin mailing list.
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> Thanks.
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> Incidentally, when I run find 4.1.7 on another machine with an older
> installation, it works correctly with the Samba drive.   The cygwin1.dll
> version on that machine is 1.5.10-0x5E6/2004-05-25 22:07.
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> The machine that doesn't work has find/4.3.0 and
> cygwin1.dll/1.5.19-0x5EF/2006-01-20 13:28
> On that machine that did not work, I also tried the newest snapshot of the
> cygwin1 dll (at the suggestion of another developer) but the failure was
> exactly the same.
>
> Ross
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