On Jul 21 17:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've noticed that if I do (*) a > > chown -R administrator.SYSTEM / > > then chown goes out onto the network and tries to access shares called > //bin, //var, //usr etc., and can block for long periods, too. > > Now, I do understand that really I should be doing (**) > > chown -R administrator.SYSTEM `cygpath -w / | sed 's|\\|/|g'` > > to restrict the chown to only affect Cygwin files anyway, but I'm still > interested in how the spurious //bin etc. names are generated. (I.e. > whether that's actually a bug?)
It's a bug in the current chown implementation in that it doesn't know that leading double slashes has a special meaning on some operating systems. I don't know if that's fixed in newer versions of chown. Since chown is part of coreutils today, it would be nice if we could find a volunteer to maintain coreutils. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Co-Project Leader mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/