Re: Problem [1.7]: Inconsistent and wrong results from e.g. ls and md5sum

2009-11-28 Thread Reinier Post
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 10:11:07PM -0600, Charles D. Russell wrote: > > But there is no alternative for external storage that is to be readable > on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. And I use Cygwin scripts for all my > backups and housekeeping. Just a side note: I don't know about Mac, but I'm

Re: Problem [1.7]: Inconsistent and wrong results from e.g. ls and md5sum

2009-11-27 Thread Andy Koppe
2009/11/28 Charles D. Russell: > Corinna Vinschen wrote: >  I dislike FAT32 a lot, so I usually >> >> never test on it. > > But there is no alternative for external storage that is to be readable on > Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX.  And I use Cygwin scripts for all my backups > and housekeeping. Cor

Re: Problem [1.7]: Inconsistent and wrong results from e.g. ls and md5sum

2009-11-27 Thread Charles D. Russell
Corinna Vinschen wrote: I dislike FAT32 a lot, so I usually never test on it. But there is no alternative for external storage that is to be readable on Windows, Linux, and Mac OSX. And I use Cygwin scripts for all my backups and housekeeping. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/

Re: Problem [1.7]: Inconsistent and wrong results from e.g. ls and md5sum

2009-11-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 04:53:26PM +, Fergus wrote: >Fergus wrote: > >>> I am having ongoing problems with file processing using [1.7] > >>> with W7 on FAT32. > >Corinna wrote: > >> IT'S ALL MY FAULT. > >> I dislike FAT32 a lot, so I usually never test on it. > > > I just uploaded a new Cygwin

Re: Problem [1.7]: Inconsistent and wrong results from e.g. ls and md5sum

2009-11-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 27 16:53, Fergus wrote: > Fergus wrote: > FAT32 + [1.7] + XWin stopped being a viable combination after 1.7.60 > for the reasons you describe at > http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2009-11/msg00081.html > (incidentally I find the -nolock switch has no useful effect). You should put this to

Re: Problem [1.7]: Inconsistent and wrong results from e.g. ls and md5sum

2009-11-27 Thread Fergus
Fergus wrote: >>> I am having ongoing problems with file processing using [1.7] >>> with W7 on FAT32. Corinna wrote: >> IT'S ALL MY FAULT. >> I dislike FAT32 a lot, so I usually never test on it. > I just uploaded a new Cygwin 1.7 test release, 1.7.0-67. And it has cleared up the glitch in the

Re: Problem [1.7]: Inconsistent and wrong results from e.g. ls and md5sum

2009-11-27 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Nov 27 08:22, Fergus wrote: > I am having ongoing problems with file processing using [1.7] with > W7 on FAT32. [...] > $ find . -type f | xargs md5sum | grep d41d8cd9 > d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e > [...] > 2) If I use ls to see whether, here too, there are any files of size > 0 wrongly id

Re: Problem [1.7]: Inconsistent and wrong results from e.g. ls and md5sum

2009-11-27 Thread Csaba Raduly
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 9:22 AM, Fergus wrote: > cygcheck attached. By the way I also got this output when running cygcheck > -srv > > $ cygcheck -srv > cygcheck.srv > /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warning: OpenService failed for 'DcomLaunch': > Win32 error 5 > Access is denied. > /usr/bin/cygrunsrv: warnin

Problem [1.7]: Inconsistent and wrong results from e.g. ls and md5sum

2009-11-27 Thread Fergus
I am having ongoing problems with file processing using [1.7] with W7 on FAT32. The problems are not specific to ls and md5sum but may serve to illustrate a deeper problem. Of course it might be the W7/FAT32 platform that is inducing the poor behaviours but I would like to try to gather evidenc