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diff --git a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo index aa4325a56..63853fb6b 100644 --- a/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo +++ b/winsup/doc/how-using.texinfo @@ -165,6 +165,12 @@ itself a symbolic link, then find will not traverse it unless you specify the @samp{-follow} option. This behavior is different than most other UNIX implementations, but is not likely to change. +If find does not seem to be producing enough results, or seems to be +missing out some directories, you may be experiencing a problem with one +of find's optimisations. The absence of @samp{.} and @samp{..} +directories on some filesystems, such as DVD-R UDF, can confuse find. +See the documentation for the option @samp{-noleaf} in the man page. + @subsection Why doesn't @samp{su} work? The @samp{su} command has been in and out of Cygwin distributions, but @@ -678,16 +684,17 @@ middle mouse buttons, respectively. It will honor settings in your Don't invoke as simply ``rxvt'' because that will run /bin/sh (really ash) which is not a good interactive shell. For details see -@code{/usr/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-<ver>.README}. +@code{/usr/share/doc/Cygwin/rxvt-<ver>.README}. @subsection info error "dir: No such file or directory" -Cygwin packages install their info documentation in the /usr/info -directory. But you need to create a @code{dir} file there before the -standalone info program (probably @code{/usr/bin/info}) can be used to -read those info files. This is how you do it: +Cygwin packages install their info documentation in the +@code{/usr/share/info} directory. But you need to create a @code{dir} +file there before the standalone info program (probably +@code{/usr/bin/info}) can be used to read those info files. This is how +you do it: @example - bash$ cd /usr/info + bash$ cd /usr/share/info bash$ for f in *.info ; do install-info $f dir ; done @end example This may generate warnings: @@ -696,7 +703,7 @@ This may generate warnings: install-info: warning: no info dir entry in `time.info' @end example The @code{install-info} command cannot parse these files, so you will -have to add their entries to @code{/usr/info/dir} by hand. +have to add their entries to @code{/usr/share/info/dir} by hand. Even if the dir file already exists, you may have to update it when you install new Cygwin packages. Some packages update the dir file |