On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 03:56:44PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > 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.
I also had a look at the code and reached pretty much the same conclusion as Volker. Replacing all 'isslash (*src)' and 'isslash (src[x])' in normalize_posix_path by "isdirsep ()" would yield more consistent results. I know this code is delicate but the possible drawback isn't obvious. Pierre -- 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/
