From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-10-22T16:03:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Cygwin: Dir.glob ALWAYS accesses floppy??

Welcome back, Hugh!

2008/10/21 Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>:
>
>
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Victor H. Goff III wrote:
>
> 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 do not have this issue with my cygwin 1.5.25.

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

Did you check your environment for critical entries that point to the
floppy, like PATH, HOME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, RUBYLIB?  You could also use
"strace" to see what the interpreter does - maybe that gives you a
hint what causes the floppy access. The only other thing that comes to
mind is a virus scanner that for some reason during drive accesses
checks the floppy.

Kind regards

robert


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