Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/12/25/15:13:34
On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 03:06:33PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Wed, 25 Dec 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Wed, Dec 25, 2002 at 02:29:17PM -0500, Arkadiy Belousov wrote:
>> >The version currently available does not support specifying port in
>> >CVSROOT. And I need that for ssh tunneling.
>> >
>> >I do realize I am on the bleeding edge here. Still, it's something to
>> >look at when CVS 1.11.2 is ported. Personally, I think it's the
>> >compiler. Let's wait till gcc loses (prerelease) label on it.
>>
>> Despite appearances to the contrary, cygwin's gcc is based on the
>> released version of gcc 3.2. There is no better version being planned.
>>
>> It sounds to me like this is a problem with opening a directory using
>> open, as was previously suggested.
>
>If I understand the documentation at
>http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007904975/functions/open.html
>corectly, open()ing a directory is not explicitly prohibited (in fact, the
>phrasing of one error value,
>
>[EISDIR]
> The named file is a directory and oflag includes O_WRONLY or O_RDWR.
>
>suggests that it is allowed). Besides, the code only uses the file
>descriptor in a subsequent call to fchdir()... Am I missing something
>here?
You may be missing the fact that saying "a problem with opening a directory"
is not equivalent to saying "Cygwin isn't supposed to work this way."
Pierre Humblet submitted a patch to fix a problem opening directories on
Windows 9x/Me last week.
So, as always, trying a new cygwin snapshot is a good idea.
cgf
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