Re: Directory???

Rick Miles is a darn silly person I don't care what anybody says!
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arrrrrrrrgh!!!! a tyop!!!
I'm running 4.2 not 2.2. Actually just installed 4.2.2 which I was given by 
codeweavers to testdrive. 4.5 is due in a couple months.
>
> I've been using 2.2-pro and its been pretty stable/useful. Especially for
> my daughter doing schoolwork and such. I sometimes bring something home in
> excel or access and IMHO its good for general home use.
>
> > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:33:12 +1000  Ben Stringer <[email protected]>
> >
> > wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 20:41 +1000, Keith Bainbridge wrote:
> > > > G'day folks,
> > > >
> > > > What do youthink I have done to get this:
> > > >
> > > > /disks/net/b120/hda4/home/keith/.cxoffice/dotwine/dosdevices/ZS
> > > > XKM0
> > > > ~L/proc/14543/task/14543/root/proc/14543/task/14543/root/proc/1
> > > > 4543
> > > > /task/14543/root/proc/14543/task/14543/root/proc/14543/task/145
> > > > 43/r
> > > > oot/proc/14543/task/14543/root/proc/14543/task/14543/root/proc/
> > > > 1454
> > > > 3/task/14543/root/proc/14543/task/14543/root/proc/14543/task/14
> > > > 543/
> > > > root/proc/14543/task/14543/root/proc/14543/task/14543/root/proc
> > > > /145
> > > > 43/task/14543/root/proc/14543/task/14543/root/proc/14543/task/1
> > > > 4543
> > > > /root/proc/14543/task/14543/root/proc/14543/task/14543/root/pro
> > > > c/14
> > > > 543/task/14543/root/proc/14543/task/14543/root/proc/14543/task/
> > > > 1454
> > > > 3/root/proc/14543/task/14543/root/home/keith/keithdata/steph/et
> > > > ax20 03/LUKE.TAX
> > >
> > > Ran "find" over the /proc directory and passed the result to
> > > something else that creates files?
> > >
> > > /proc/<PID>/task/<PID>/root is (usually) a symlink to "/", so that
> > > kind of makes all the middle part of that path make sense. Why
> > > this path got constructed out of parts of your personal files and
> > > a recursion over /proc will be interesting to hear :)
> > >
> > > Perhaps CrossOver Office is looking in /proc and treating it like
> > > a normal filesystem?
> > >
> > > Or maybe the shell got passed some odd combination of characters
> > > that "resolved" to the PID entry in /proc ?
> > >
> > > Cheers, Ben

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Cheers,

Rick Miles

Movement stopped is no movement,
and rest set in motion is no rest.

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