[ruby-talk:21810] Re: Problem with directory? Re: Path walking on windows

Ed Sinjiashvili wrote:

> Charles Hixson <[e-mail]> writes:
> 
>>Dir.new(tip_root).walk {|p| puts p }
>>            # if p =~ /\.([Hh][Tt][Mm]([Ll])?)$/ }
>>
>>This code simply lists all files in the directory.  Even the included
>>directories are shown as "is not a directory".  And no descent into
>>the sub-directories is attempted (naturally).
>>
> I'm sorry to answer so late but I was away for a while. The problem
> with this code is that you don't give prefix dir to initial #walk
> invocation. Dir class has a notion of working directory - you can
> retrieve it with #pwd. #walk method never changes that class variable,
> i.e. it does not #chdir into directories. Instead it receives prefix
> parameter which is a relative path to current working directory. I
> used to start from current dir - so I didn't pass "." to
> walk. Following two calls are effectively equivalent:
> Dir.new(".").walk "." {|p| puts p}
> Dir.new(".").walk {|p| puts p}
> 
> But if you don't start walking from current dir - you should always
> pass relative prefix to #walk. It's a tradeoff of not changing working
> directory.
>   Dir.new(tip_root).walk(tip_root) {|p| puts p }
> 
> I hope this helps and I suggest you to try mswin32 port of ruby. As I
> said in some previous post - it's way faster than cygwin .
> 
> --
> Ed Sinjiashvili

I don't think that's the answer.  It found the directories, it 
just didn't recognize that they were directories rather than 
normal files.  After I removed and re-installed CygWin, this 
problem went away.  But I was using the version from Practical 
Programmers, rather than a version locally compiled.  (Local 
compiles file to make because of some problem with dllwrap .. 
well, cygwin doesn't really support win95, so I can't really 
complain about that!)

OTOH, the Ruby version from Practical Programmers does use the 
cygwin dll, so perhaps you mean some other version, that I don't 
know about.  (There must be some reason that a replaced cygwin 
install could change the results!)

Still, running under cygwin has many benefits, one of which is 
that I can capture the error stream to a text file, for perusal 
after it would have rolled off the top of the screen.  And it 
doesn't determine which version of Ruby I run.  If it matters, I 
also tried running under MSDos, and the same problem occured 
there.  Which makes it doubly strange that an ab-initio install 
of CygWin should fix things.
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