From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-10-23T14:53:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Cygwin: Dir.glob ALWAYS accesses floppy??

On 22.10.2008 20:05, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> Following up to myself, but anyway:
> 
> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 22 Oct 2008, Robert Klemme wrote:
>>
>>> 2008/10/21 Hugh Sasse <hgs@dmu.ac.uk>:

>> strace ruby -e 'puts Dir["/cygdrive/c/*{.txt,.bat}"]'
>> doesn't touch the A drive.  I wonder.  I'll have to strace the 
>> program I'm running, itself.  Probably something messes with the
>> definition of glob.
> 
> I've not done this yet, partly because there is a Huge amount of output
> from strace, and I'm not entirely sure what to search for, but partly
> because I have investigated other things

I would be searching for "/cygdrive/a" and see what you get.  If that 
fails, I'd probably search for "/cygdrive" only and then for IO calls 
("open" and the like).

>>> 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.
>> Does Symantec Endpoint Protection do that?  Why not for the short
>> example?  It will take me a while to figure that out!
> 
> No closer to finding out about that.

No traces in documentation about handling of removable disks?

> The globbing on my Windows XP system took over a day.  I'm thinking of
> rewriting that bit using File.find.  I've also found that I can't kill it
> with <ctrl-C> while it is globbing.

:-)

Kind regards

	robert