From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2008-10-22T06:26:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Cygwin: Dir.glob ALWAYS accesses floppy??



On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Victor H. Goff III wrote:

> If cygwin is installed on your c drive, then you will want to avoid
> certain directories during your traversal.
> 
> Linux / Unix / Cygwin has a directory that is responsible for your
> devices, and they are all 'files'.  This would be the reason.
> 
> In the case of Cygwin, you will want to avoid your c:\cygwin\dev
> directory which should map to /dev

I'm avoiding that, I'm doing
   Dir.["/cygdrive/c/Documents and Settings/hgs/**/*{.rb,.pl,.txt}"]
which should not go near /dev or /cygdrive/a.
If I break that up to not use ** but glob each directory in turn,
the A: drive gets hammered with activity, one hit per glob.  This is
on WinXP SP3, by the way.

I'm at a loss to account for this....

        Thank you,
        Hugh
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