Re: Windows 7: stat /cygdrive/D/nosuchfile yields garbage

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 5/18/2011 9:57 PM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> I'm using Cygwin (version 1.7.9-1 of cygwin1.dll) on Windows 7
> on a Dell laptop.  Cygwin is installed in C:\cygwin.
>
> I should mention that I have a second Cygwin installation on
> the same laptop; it's in C:\apps\cygwin, and has version 1.7.5-1
> of cygwin1.dll.  I understand that having more than one Cygwin
> installation on a Windows box is not supported, and if that's likely
> to be the cause of this problem I won't complain.  But if anyone
> else has seen similar behavior with a supported configuration,
> it should probably be looked into further.

I cannot reproduce this with either 1.7.9 or 1.7.5 (different machines
though).  In my case, I cannot stat /cygdrive/d or anything under it
unless there is media in the drive.

$ stat /cygdrive/d
stat: cannot stat `/cygdrive/d': No such file or directory

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Larry

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A: Yes.
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