On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:52:34PM -0500, Volker Quetschke wrote: >Hi Corinna, > >>>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". > >It's nice to be mean, isn't it?
How about some clarification: "Don't use DOS paths if you want consistent i-nodes?" You're welcome to use DOS paths if you want. You just can't expect UNIX-style behavior from them. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
