Christopher Faylor wrote:
I've built findutils from CVS and made it available as a test/experimental
version.
This version is reputed to fix the problem the '-printf "%P"'. I don't
know if it also solves the mind-bogglingly awful problem of spurious
floppy access but if anyone is still functional
> 2003-08-05 Pavel Tsekov
Oops. Sorry for posting Pavel's email address.
Of course, this apology won't stop 27 people from pointing out that I
did so.
cgf
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >I guess what I'm getting at is it's impossible to patch find (and the
> >various other utilities that were reported to cause a seek) to not
> >invoke the seek. Do you have any plans to consider applying the Cygwin
> >patch at all or do we just get to live with a flopp
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 09:04:13PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>However this also means that it's impossible for any "userspace" code
>that wants to list the mounts to avoid the spurious floppy seek, which
>seems like undue punishment.
That has been the case for some time.
>Especially mean since
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Right. And /cygdrive/a is one of the mounts.
>
> Someone else already pointed to the change in Cygwin which removed the
> exception so that floppy drives showing up in the mount table.
>
> So, you now see where the problem is coming from. This is code that has
> bee
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 08:35:18PM -0800, Brian Dessent wrote:
>Anyway. Having not used a floppy disk in months, I immediately ruled
>out the MRU theory. This was annoying enough that I built a debug
>version of findutils from the 20041219-1 source and stepped through it
>with gdb. The floppy se
Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
> I've built findutils from CVS and made it available as a test/experimental
> version.
>
> This version is reputed to fix the problem the '-printf "%P"'. I don't
> know if it also solves the mind-bogglingly awful problem of spurious
> floppy access but if anyone is s
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
| I've built findutils from CVS and made it available as a
test/experimental
| version.
|
| This version is reputed to fix the problem the '-printf "%P"'. I
don't
| know if it also solves the mind-bogglingly awful problem of s
I've built findutils from CVS and made it available as a test/experimental
version.
This version is reputed to fix the problem the '-printf "%P"'. I don't
know if it also solves the mind-bogglingly awful problem of spurious
floppy access but if anyone is still functional after suffering from
this
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