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Re: FAQ update suggestion for "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?"


At 02:34 PM 7/17/2004, you wrote:
>On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 13:08:15 -0400, Larry Hall <cygwin-lh@cygwin.com> wrote:
>> At 07:54 AM 7/13/2004, you wrote:
>> >> >Whilst this is not an issue with Cygwin per se, the nature of Cygwin
>> >> >means that this issue will tend to arise commonly with Cygwin, and tend
>> >> >not to arise under traditional unixes.
>> >>
>> OK, so your reference to "this issue" was not the find/-noleaf stuff you
>> found but rather the more general issue regarding functionality and stability
>> of features in Cygwin, given the differences in maturity.  Sure, I guess
>> you could make that argument.  I thought you were implying that the
>> find/-noleaf problem you ran into was the norm for ISO/UDF media with Windows
>> and Cygwin yet not for Linux/UNIX.
>
>Well, after spending a ridiculous amount of time playing around with
>this (it was fun!),
>I decided to add it to the "I'm having basic problems with find. Why?"
>FAQ after all. It appears that Linux works around the '.' '..' UDF
>problem at the filesystem driver level (that's kinda a guess, I only
>have commercial DVDs to test), which of course Windows doesn't do. As
>for other *nixes...well, they should read our FAQ. :)


Thanks Joshua.  That answers quite clearly my original question on this 
subject.  Great work!




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