On Oct 12 12:50, Fergus wrote: > Current Cygwin 1.7.0-62 > Windows 7 v.6.1.7600 > Attached: cygcheck output > > Operations of the style > find ... | xargs ... > seem orders of magnitude faster in [1.7] than they have been in [1.5], > which is just great. > > However I have been experiencing flakey and inconsistent behaviours with > bad consequences, which I have reduced to the following example. > > $ find . -type f | xargs md5sum | grep d41d8c > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e *./xdelta/xdelta-1.1.3-3-src.tar.bz2 > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e *./syslog-ng/syslog-ng-2.1.1-1.tar.bz2 > .. (and so on, several files found all with the same md5sum indicating size > 0) > > $ find . -type f | xargs md5sum | grep d41d8c > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e > *./X.Org/libXft/libXft-2.1.13-10-src.tar.bz2 > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e > *./X.Org/libXau/libXau-devel/libXau-devel-1.0.4-10.tar.bz2 > .. (and so on) > > $ find . -type f | xargs md5sum | grep d41d8c > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e > *./X.Org/libX11/libX11-xcb1/libX11-xcb1-1.2.1-1.tar.bz2 > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e *./which/which-2.20-2-src.tar.bz2 > .. (and so on) > > The directory I used (actually a local Cygwin release/ directory) contains > a large number of files (6000+). None of the files are of size 0 (md5sum > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e) but > (a) the find ... command suggests that some are; and > (b) the findings are variable when the command is repeated.
I tried this with the Cygwin release directory multiple times, with the release dir on a local drive as well as on a remote NFS drive. I can't reproduce this weird behaviour. I'm wondering if that's one of these dreaded BLODA problems again... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple