Mail Archives: cygwin/2001/10/05/01:01:29
>>>>I updated to "current" CVS last night around 1am EDT, and rebuilt
>>>>cygwin. After installing that, I saw the same behavior as before: raw
>>>>read worked, raw write did not (Permission denied). :-(
>>>>
>>>>
>>>This was really strange. Everything worked fine for me until I ejected
>>>my floppy. From that point on, I couldn't write to any floppy. I had to
>>>scroll back several times to convince myself that I wasn't
>>>hallucinating.
>>>
>>>Anyway, since I could eventually duplicate the problem, I could actually
>>>fix it.
>>>
>>>So, how about *now*, Chuck? Does it work *now*?
Yes, it works now. raw read. raw write. eject. insert. raw write.
All works fine.
>>
>>Per the earlier discussion about autoconf-2.13/2.52, I was attempting to
>>do a side-by-side installation of the two, and decided to run the
>>checks. (eventaully to write a script that parses configure.in for the
>>AC_REQ[] line to determine which one to call, etc).
>>
>>2.13 had "226 expected passes, 33 unexpected failures". (On both
>>cygwin-20011001, and cygwin-1.3.3-2). This is the same as our previous
>>experiments, if you remember those.
>>
>>2.52 was failing all over the place with cygwin-20011001. (With 1.3.2,
>>we had finally gotten autoconf to pass all tests). I'm currently
>>running the tests again with 1.3.3-2, to make sure the 'breakage'
>>occurred during the 1.3.4 development cycle and not before. So far I'm
>>passing all tests with 1.3.3-2 (but this'll take several more hours to
>>complete on my machine).
>>
>
> There have been a considerable number of changes since 2001/10/01. I
> didn't ask for volunteers to check this out until 10/3. That is when I
> ostensibly finished all of my infrastructure changes.
>
> I wouldn't have expected that things would actually be broken on
> 2001/10/01 but it certainly makes sense to use a newer snapshot (or,
> even better, CVS) if possible.
Okay, I'm re-running the tests now, under my fresh-from-the-oven
cgywin1-20011005. We'll see what the results are tomorrow morning.
--Chuck
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