From: Michael Roberts {67000 CF/DEV} (roberts@cray.com)
Date: 12/17/92


From: roberts@cray.com (Michael Roberts  {67000 CF/DEV})
Subject: 0.99 directory bug?
Date: 17 Dec 1992 18:00:32 CST


My recent upgrade to 0.99 from 0.98.5 has yielded a bug involving
floppy disks. When I mount a floppy disk with a minix filesystem
on it and I change directories to the floppy disk, I get errors
using "pwd" and "du". "pwd" gives the error:

        pwd: No such file or directory

but it works fine when my current working directory is on a hard
drive partition. "du" works fine on floppy directories, but if I'm
in a floppy directory and "du" a hard disk directory, like "du /",
I get the error:

        du: cannot get current directory: No such file or directory

I tried recompiling the utilities with no difference. I also grabbed
libc.so.4.2 but that made no difference. I tried booting from floppy
so my root directory was a floppy and mounted the hard disk
partitions and then everything worked happily.

Has anyone else experienced this minor inconvenience?

Mike Roberts