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Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update
- From: Fergus <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- To: Cygwin ML <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Cc: Fergus <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 11:37:04 +0000
- Subject: Re: Directory named "." created at /: seems to have happened during update
.. just to confirm. Booting from a Linux live CD, and with Cygwin [1.7]
located on a mobile drive mounted at /m, I get
~> ls -al /m
total 635088
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 15 root root 4096 1970-01-01 01:00 .
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 0 2010-03-01 11:22 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 204800 2010-02-05 09:06 bin
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:06 dev
drwxr-xr-x 52 root root 8192 2010-02-05 09:07 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-03-01 11:20 home
drwxr-xr-x 113 root root 102400 2010-02-05 09:15 lib
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:15 opt
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-03-01 11:23 Recycled
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:15 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:15 srv
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:15 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:55 usr
drwxr-xr-x 14 root root 4096 2010-02-05 09:55 var
Note extraordinary double occurrence of directory named ".".
"If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes .." (etc etc)
Fergus
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