The C:\\Path\\to\\files does work. Thanks! Hopefully Cygwin maintainers will fix whatever is wrong with its path resolution. (Note that the command line ls works just fine, is what had me completely baffled.)
Paul On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 3:09 PM, Tilghman Lesher <[email protected]> wrote: > From that test, it sounds like Cygwin is not resolving its internal > symlinks correctly. If you tried to do an opendir on "C:\\", does > that work? Note that with the Windows paths, you're definitely going > to need to escape (backslash) every backslash in the directory name. > > On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:34 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> wrote: > > / ok > > /cygdrive - Fails > > /cygdrive/c fails > > /home Fails > > /home/paul Fails > > . Ok > > > > Paul > > > > On May 9, 2015 2:22 PM, "Tilghman Lesher" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> Can you do an opendir on something higher in the chain? I'd suggest > >> something along the lines of "/cygdrive/c", or something like that, to > >> see if the problem is the opendir command itself, or if it's something > >> higher. For that matter, can you do an opendir on "/"? > >> > >> On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 2:06 PM, Paul Boniol <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > I'm sure this is a SMDH moment... but I have a Perl program that does > an > >> > opendir to get the list of files. Been running fine for years under > >> > Cygwin. > >> > I just installed Cygwin64. Tried to run it. opendir fails with "No > >> > such > >> > file or directory". > >> > > >> > Doing a command line ls same-dir-path works fine. > >> > > >> > It is outside C:\Cygwin64\ so the path is a > >> > /cygdrive/c/some/other/dir/.... > >> > but that shouldn't matter. (Also tried from a symbolic link) > >> > > >> > I'm sure it is something I'm doing wrong, but this is so simple, I > don't > >> > know what I could be doing wrong, or failing to check. Any thoughts? > >> > > >> > Paul > >> > > >> > -- > >> > -- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups > >> > "NLUG" group. > >> > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> > [email protected] > >> > For more options, visit this group at > >> > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > >> > > >> > --- > >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >> > Groups > >> > "NLUG" group. > >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > >> > an > >> > email to [email protected]. > >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Tilghman > >> > >> -- > >> -- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "NLUG" group. > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected] > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > >> > >> --- > >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups > >> "NLUG" group. > >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an > >> email to [email protected]. > >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected] > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > > > --- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "NLUG" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > > email to [email protected]. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > > > -- > Tilghman > > -- > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "NLUG" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
