On Feb 10 18:51, Andrey Repin wrote: > Greetings, jss pop! > > > I installed cygwin( CYGWIN_NT-5.1)without any problems at all. Clicked > > the Win desktop icon and the up came the Window and bash prompt. > > However I then tried:- > > > find / -name “*.c” –print (and again later with –type f argument) > > This ran, found a few .c files but continued running for a very long > > time – longer that expected. Even from / I though it seem too long. > > Many files appeared seemingly (from the displayed path name) as > > “registry-type” (UUID’s in pathname) under /proc. The machine > > eventually crashed! I do mean the machine itself btw and not just > > cygwin. > > That's because... > Cygwin implements *NIX way of thinking about your system. > The root ("/") filesystem contains EVERYTHING: files, registry, running > process pool... > If you want to avoid such collisions, either exclude /proc from search path, > or explicitly specify more narrow search path.
-xdev is a helpful find option, too. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple