Re: bash `test -e' problem with cdrom drive and soft-disk drive

[Haojun Bao <baohaojun at gmail dot com>]

Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> writes:

> On Jun  8 22:53, Haojun Bao wrote:
>> 
>> If you have cd-rom/soft-disk drive, please run the following test case,
>> 
>>     for x in {a..z}; do 
>>     if test -e /cygdrive/$x/Windows ; then
>>        echo "Windows found on /cygdrive/$x"
>>        cd /cygdrive/$x
>>     fi
>>     done
>>     
>> And here's the result:
>> 
>>     Windows found on /cygdrive/a
>>     bash: cd: /cygdrive/a: No medium found
>>     Windows found on /cygdrive/c
>>     Windows found on /cygdrive/j
>>     bash: cd: /cygdrive/j: No medium found
>>     Windows found on /cygdrive/k
>>     bash: cd: /cygdrive/k: No medium found
>
> And what's the problem?
Also, here's another test case:

    for x in {a..z}; do PATH=/cygdrive/$x/bin:"$PATH"; ls.exe; done

The result will be take a long time to complete if you have a `A:' drive
in `My Computer', like the following:

    bash: /cygdrive/a/bin/ls.exe: Permission denied
    bash: /cygdrive/a/bin/ls.exe: Permission denied
    bash: /cygdrive/a/bin/ls.exe: Permission denied
    bash: /cygdrive/a/bin/ls.exe: Permission denied
    bash: /cygdrive/a/bin/ls.exe: Permission denied
    bash: /cygdrive/a/bin/ls.exe: Permission denied
    bash: /cygdrive/a/bin/ls.exe: Permission denied
    bash: /cygdrive/a/bin/ls.exe: Permission denied
    bash: /cygdrive/a/bin/ls.exe: Permission denied
    bash: /cygdrive/j/bin/ls.exe: Permission denied
    bash: /cygdrive/k/bin/ls.exe: Permission denied

Since I have nothing in drive A:/J:/K:, I think something is wrong with
the file system mounting. Can you reproduce it? 

Oh, forgot to mention, I'm testing the cygwin-1.7.

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