Weird or what.My Cygwin [1.7] is located at the root of a mobile hard drive and a simple DOS dir command now shows a directory named . as in
M:\>dir /ad
Volume in drive M has no label.
Volume Serial Number is 4B6B-CC15
Directory of M:\
01/03/2010 08:39 <DIR> Recycled
05/02/2010 09:06 <DIR> bin
05/02/2010 09:06 <DIR> dev
05/02/2010 09:07 <DIR> etc
01/03/2010 07:10 <DIR> home
05/02/2010 09:15 <DIR> lib
05/02/2010 09:15 <DIR> opt
05/02/2010 09:15 <DIR> sbin
05/02/2010 09:15 <DIR> srv
05/02/2010 09:15 <DIR> tmp
05/02/2010 09:55 <DIR> usr
05/02/2010 09:55 <DIR> var
01/03/2010 09:44 <DIR> .
0 File(s) 0 bytes
13 Dir(s) 2,571,448,320 bytes free
The time stamp is identical to the most recent update (python-pyrex +
lilypond + sysvinit):
dir \etc\setup \od
{many files}
27/02/2010 07:08 168 mintty.lst.gz
01/03/2010 09:42 10 timestamp
01/03/2010 09:44 913 python-pyrex.lst.gz
01/03/2010 09:44 2,138 lilypond.lst.gz
01/03/2010 09:44 69,046 installed.db
01/03/2010 09:44 303 sysvinit.lst.gz
01/03/2010 09:45 148 setup.rc
and I can only think that something strange happened during the update.
Meanwhile, even with a Linux rescue disk, I have no idea how to delete
the extra directory. Consequences are that DOS commands like
dir /s attrib /s result in endlessly nested looped output M:\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\.\ ... forever. I haven't actually fully explored consequences within Cygwin, but I imagine they are non-optimal. The command
ls -al /shows nothing out of the ordinary (e.g. there are not two occurrences of the directory named .)
Any ideas on cause or cure? Cygcheck attached. Thank you, Fergus
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