On Jul 14 13:16, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > Lee Maschmeyer wrote: >>> OK, so perhaps your problem and the Windows path shown by 'cygcheck' are >>> two >>> different issues. >> My problem is _precisely_ the Windows path shown by cygcheck. Everything >> _except_ Cygwin (as shown by cygcheck) is correct as far as I can see. > > Actually, you showed me the path that 'bash' has and it contains no > reference to the 'a' drive in any form. Since you run from a shell, > this is the path that's important. It may be coincidence or it may > be one externalization of the bug you're seeing but the Windows path > shown by 'cygcheck' has no bearing on the path that the shell sees. > Said another way, if 'cygcheck' has a bug that ends up showing you a > faulty path here, that would have no effect on anything else Cygwin. > So what we've covered so far doesn't provide a clear reason for the > behavior you're seeing. > >>> I'm back to not being sure why you're seeing accesses on >>> your floppy drive. Maybe if you straced a simple operation, you might be >>> able to tell us who, what, when, why, and/or how the floppy drive gets >>> accessed. >> Attached is the output of the command: >> strace -o strace_ls.log ls 1.7-log.txt >> I don't think it tells us anything we didn't know. Cygwin, down under the >> hood, thinks Windows is on a: but all its variables show that it's on c:, >> as do Windows variables. > > To me this suggests that there could be a problem with getwinenv() but > I can't say more than that at the moment.
It's not in getwinenv afaics, but I don't know what the actual problem is so far. It has something to do with the existance of the /a, /c etc mounts, though. For now, removing the /a mount from /etc/fstab will help to get back to speed. I'll try to figure out the cause of this problem. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- 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/
