Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/02/23/11:18:04
An experimental release of coreutils, 5.94-2, is available to help test
the latest snapshots in preparation for cygwin 1.5.20. To use this
version, you must have a recent snapshot (20060220 or later)
installed, then use the Exp button of setup.exe to select the
experimental version of coreutils.
This version uses the improved d_ino member and readdir()
improvements that are available in snapshots. I also intentionally
changed /bin/pwd to use its readdir fallback code rather than
the more efficient getcwd code, so that /bin/pwd becomes a
nice efficient test of whether cygwin is reporting accurate
inode information in its directory listings. Be aware that
coreutils-5.94-1 does not test all of the code paths of cygwin
like this experimental 5.94-2 does, so I recommend upgrading
coreutils if you plan on testing the latest snapshots to help
look for regressions in file listings. Functionally, there should
be NO difference in behavior between 5.94-1 and 5.94-2 - if
there is, then you have found a cygwin bug and should
report it to this list. This includes if the shell builtin 'cd -P'
ever disagrees with '/bin/pwd'.
--
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer
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