Re: findutils broken on cygwin

[James Youngman]

On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 04:07:25PM -0500, Hamilton, Chuck wrote:
> Findutils is broken in cygwin. The last working version is 4.1.7.4. If
> you try to run "find /proc/registry" it reports "find:
> /proc/registry/HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT/*: Is a directory" and aborts on all
> version *after* 4.1.7.4 that I have tried. It works fine in 4.1.7.4.
>  
> $ uname -a
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 CHamilto-DEL 1.5.13(0.122/4/2) 2005-03-01 11:01 i686
> unknown unknown Cygwin
> 
> My base o/s is windows xp professional version 2002, service pack 2.


Chuck,

There was never a findutils-4.1.7.4 release.  It looks to me like this
error is caused by some interaction between the Cygwin-patched version
of findutils and the Cygwin support code.  It could be something to do
with a double expansion of the wildcard, for example.

On the other hand, you could try the latest version of findutils,
which is 4.2.18.

Regards,
James.