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Re: vpath search failures in Clearcase when files do actually exist
On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 12:47:26PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:51:23PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Tue, Nov 09, 2004 at 07:21:00PM -0500, Jeremy Broughton wrote:
>>>Cyg ver: 1.3.10 (although I have reproduced the same problem with 1.5.7)
>>>OS : Windows 2000
>>>File system: MVFS (running gnumake inside a Rational Clearcase dynamic
>>>view)
>>>cygcheck: (See attached file: cygcheck.out)
>>>
>>>It appears as though there is a problem using the /cygdrive/m type paths
>>>inside MVFS when there are extremely large dependency trees.
>>
>>Unless you can point to problems with a standard, supported W2K
>>filesystem, please don't expect anyone to try to fix this.
>>
>>Cygwin uses standard Win32 APIs for detemining if something is a
>>directory. If those APIs are not working for Clearcase then it is
>>unlikely that anyone will be motivated to fix the problem on the Cygwin
>>side.
>
>The OP was suggesting both a problem determining if something is a
>directory and a problem related to pathnames. Running strace my shed
>some light on the root cause.
Would it have made you feel better if I had said "for dealing with paths
and determining if something is a directory"?
>To limit the output you could initially filter it like this:
>strace something | grep -B 1 'st_mode=\|stat_worker: -1'
If the OP is willing to do this then I hope he does it on a standard
filesystem like NTFS, as I originally suggested. If there is a problem
there then it is obviously not a ClearCase problem.
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