Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-03-02 Thread Phil Edwards
I'll need more details if you expect me to help resolve that crash. A stackdump is nearly useless without compiled symbols to go along it - what was your exact command line? What version of find? It wasn't meant to be a bug report for find(1), just a note of why I'd stopped investigating it.

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-03-01 Thread Marco Atzeri
--- Phil Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Try replacing spaces ' ' with dots '.' in the paths specified with --prunepaths. In a regexp a dot matches any character. I had tried that, but --prunepaths='/cygdrive/c/System.Volume.Information' still caused the corresponding

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-03-01 Thread Phil Edwards
Please don't quote email addresses unmunged. (There's a cygwin acronym for that, but it escapes me at the moment.) Marco Atzeri wrote: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 ITQMOZCAS1WS875 1.7.0s(0.166/4/2) 20070224 01:25:30 i686 Cygwin I'm using the current stable release, 1.5.24. I've been trying to use find(1)

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-03-01 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Phil Edwards on 3/1/2007 11:24 AM: I'm using the current stable release, 1.5.24. I've been trying to use find(1) directly to work out a minimally successful command line, but so far nothing. Adding -D options results in a crash:

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-28 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Phil Edwards on 2/27/2007 11:50 AM: On 2/27/07, Furash Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /cygdrive/c/System\ Volume\ Information Quotes and backslashes aren't going to solve the problem, I think. I looked at updatedb (it's a shell

RE: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-28 Thread Furash Gary
; cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Strange message from updatedb -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Phil Edwards on 2/27/2007 11:50 AM: On 2/27/07, Furash Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /cygdrive/c/System\ Volume\ Information Quotes and backslashes aren't going to solve

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-28 Thread Phil Edwards
Try replacing spaces ' ' with dots '.' in the paths specified with --prunepaths. In a regexp a dot matches any character. I had tried that, but --prunepaths='/cygdrive/c/System.Volume.Information' still caused the corresponding directory to be searched. I didn't have time to look further

RE: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-27 Thread Furash Gary
/cygdrive/c/System\ Volume\ Information /c/cygwin' -Original Message- From: Phil Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 26, 2007 3:36 PM To: cygwin@cygwin.com; Furash Gary; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Strange message from updatedb Eric Blake: /usr/bin/find: /c

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-27 Thread Phil Edwards
On 2/27/07, Furash Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: /cygdrive/c/System\ Volume\ Information Quotes and backslashes aren't going to solve the problem, I think. I looked at updatedb (it's a shell script), and the --prunepaths argument is passed through a sed script which replaces spaces in order

RE: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-27 Thread Furash Gary
So is there anything I can do for win cygwin? -Original Message- From: Phil Edwards [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 11:51 AM To: Furash Gary Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Strange message from updatedb On 2/27/07, Furash Gary [EMAIL

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-27 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Phil Edwards wrote: On 2/27/07, Furash Gary [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR. Thanks. /cygdrive/c/System\ Volume\ Information Quotes and backslashes aren't going to solve the problem, I think. I looked at updatedb (it's a shell

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-27 Thread Phil Edwards
On 2/27/07, Igor Peshansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Phil Edwards wrote: Quotes and backslashes aren't going to solve the problem, I think. I looked at updatedb (it's a shell script), and the --prunepaths argument is passed through a sed script which replaces spaces in

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-27 Thread Cary Jamison
Phil Edwards wrote: I'm aware of the restrictions, and I will bet long odds that spaces show up in filenames far more often than colons (or any other punctuation commonly used as a separator in pathname lists) are used. I've not changed my opinion that updatedb is behind the times and is

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-27 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:17:54PM -0700, Cary Jamison wrote: Phil Edwards wrote: I'm aware of the restrictions, and I will bet long odds that spaces show up in filenames far more often than colons (or any other punctuation commonly used as a separator in pathname lists) are used. I've not

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-27 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Christopher Faylor wrote: On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:17:54PM -0700, Cary Jamison wrote: Phil Edwards wrote: I'm aware of the restrictions, and I will bet long odds that spaces show up in filenames far more often than colons (or any other punctuation commonly used as a separator in pathname

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-27 Thread Enrico Forestieri
Furash Gary writes: So is there anything I can do for win cygwin? Try replacing spaces ' ' with dots '.' in the paths specified with --prunepaths. In a regexp a dot matches any character. -- Enrico -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports:

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-26 Thread Phil Edwards
Eric Blake: /usr/bin/find: /c/System Volume Information: Permission denied Not a problem - you can't find details about certain in-use system files. I don't think that was the question. If you note at the end of his message, he gives the command invocation, which included that string in

Re: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-24 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Furash Gary on 2/22/2007 9:00 AM: Here's the error messages I get /usr/bin/updatedb: line 241: /var/locatedb.n: Permission denied Sorry for the delay; I was on vacation. I cannot reproduce this without more details. Do you have the

Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-22 Thread Furash Gary
I'm running it on windows with this command updatedb --prunepaths='/cygdrive/c/windows /cygdrive/e /cygdrive/d /cygdrive/z cygdrive/y /proc /cygdrive/c/System\ Volume\ Information /usr /var /cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/furashg/Local\ Settings/Temporary\ Internet\ Files' However, when I run

RE: Strange message from updatedb

2007-02-22 Thread Furash Gary
Here's the error messages I get /usr/bin/updatedb: line 241: /var/locatedb.n: Permission denied /usr/bin/find: Filesystem loop detected; `/c/cygwin' is part of the same filesystem loop as `/'. /usr/bin/find: /c/Program Files/MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench 5.1.0