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. C: is my hard drive. D: is my CD/DVD drive, which currently has no disk in it. When I stat a nonexistent file under /cygdrive/D, I get nonsensical results (huge sizes, strange timestamps) rather than an error message. I don't have this problem with /cygdrive/C, or with files that actually exist. I haven't tried stat'ing an existing file on a CD or DVD. To (try to) reproduce the problem, run "stat /cygdrive/D/nosuchfile", where D is the drive letter of a CD/DVD drive with no disk. $ stat /cygdrive/C File: `/cygdrive/C' Size: 0 Blocks: 8 IO Block: 65536 directory Device: 8eacaecch/2393681612d Inode: 1407374883553285 Links: 1 Access: (0000/d---------) Uid: (4294967295/????????) Gid: (4294967295/????????) Access: 2011-05-17 19:45:43.031255600 -0700 Modify: 2011-05-17 19:45:43.031255600 -0700 Change: 2011-05-17 19:45:43.031255600 -0700 Birth: 2010-08-04 04:31:46.000000000 -0700 $ stat /cygdrive/C/nosuchfile stat: cannot stat `/cygdrive/C/nosuchfile': No such file or directory $ stat /cygdrive/D File: `/cygdrive/D' Size: 0 Blocks: 39733916869668 IO Block: 65536 directory Device: f7h/247d Inode: 15880182543701391270 Links: 1 Access: (0755/drwxr-xr-x) Uid: (1327634/keithomp) Gid: (10513/Domain Users) Access: 1904-03-30 18:03:12.-225685200 Modify: 2002-02-22 02:59:30.-723071800 Change: 2002-02-21 05:02:23.-173928600 Birth: - $ stat /cygdrive/D/nosuchfile File: `/cygdrive/D/nosuchfile' Size: 6998845471659838504 Blocks: 44681719195812 IO Block: 65536 regular file Device: f7h/247d Inode: 13112919551903554218 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: (1327634/keithomp) Gid: (10513/Domain Users) Access: 1904-03-30 18:03:12.-225685200 Modify: 2018-03-14 05:28:48.-643891000 Change: 2018-03-13 07:31:42.-976783000 Birth: - $ -- Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) [email protected] <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst> Nokia "We must do something. This is something. Therefore, we must do this." -- Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn, "Yes Minister" -- 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
