It's nice to be mean, isn't it?Looks pretty similar to me, but I was looking for the following:
$ ls -ldin .\\tmp ./tmp 2919335057 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 ./tmp/ 2805415844195 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 .\tmp/
I came to that "program" by reducing the find soure to the bare minimum to show that problem.
So again, is this an expected/tolerated behaviour?
Yes, it's by design. The answer is "don't use DOS paths".
Well, have a look at path.cc, there is a lot of useless code that deals with this useless DOS paths. I bet it would be a nice speed up if we would remove this cruft.
But serious, I was hoping for some pointers where to start searching for that problem, but it wasn't difficult to find.
In the absence of inodes they are calculated as the hash of the normalized filename, but somehow the normalization of the DOS paths fails and therefore the example gives different inodes.
Why? Because, despite of the comment for normalize_posix_path that says:
/* Normalize a POSIX path. \'s are converted to /'s in the process. All duplicate /'s, except for 2 leading /'s, are deleted. The result is 0 for success, or an errno error value. */
the \'s are not always converted to /'s. Some \ are not recogized because isslash(c) only triggers for /. With the attached patch I get:
$ ls -ldin .\\tmp ./tmp 2919335057 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 ./tmp/ 2919335057 drwxr-xr-x 4 1006 513 0 Mar 10 13:06 .\tmp/
This repairs my find problem.
I didn't make extensive tests with this patch, but if DOS paths are not deprecated I'm willing to do more testing.
Volker
P.S.: Cygwin is just a great toolkit, don't shoot someone because he sometimes uses a strange configuration where he gets DOS paths.
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Index: src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc,v retrieving revision 1.288 diff -u -r1.288 path.cc --- src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc 21 Feb 2004 04:46:00 -0000 1.288 +++ src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc 24 Mar 2004 19:33:34 -0000 @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ All duplicate /'s, except for 2 leading /'s, are deleted. The result is 0 for success, or an errno error value. */ -#define isslash(c) ((c) == '/') +#define isslash(c) ((c) == '/' || (c) == '\\' ) static int normalize_posix_path (const char *src, char *dst)
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