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Re: Bug in cvs cygwin1.dll ?


> >>I don't think this is the problem.  This should actually be fixed in
> >>the latest snapshot.
> >
> >Fair enough - my guess from the strace was that mv was stat'ing /c,
> >finding it not there (because the cygdrive prefix is set to / and
> >Cygwin is taking the directory listing of C:\Cygwin as authoritative
> >for /) and trying to copy the file ggg as /c.
>
> The problem was that FindFirstFile returns an error when given "c:\" as
> its first argument.
>
> AFAICT, the use of /c, /e, etc. was irrelevant.  In fact, just doing a
> "ls /c" failed.
Ah - I can see how that would have produced this error. Thank you for taking
the time to explain.

Chris



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