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Hello all,
are there any instructions on how to rebuild the cygwin.dll ? this
1969 problem on windows2000 is a serious problem because of our
license server is unable to check the date on /cygdrive/. Also
current time on my windows systems are all in the GMT eastern time.
Thanks,
Antoine
I am surprised to see that the 1969 issue occured in a fresh install
of cygwin.. It is somewhat
On 3/30/06, Igor Peshansky <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Antoine Solomon wrote:
>
> > Hello all,
> > I have a serious problem with the date on "/cygdrive/" mount point. I
> > seem to get microsoft date function crash when running particular
> > applications.
> > The date function is called _loctotime() and it appears to be an
> > internal function for windows. Also here is the output of that
> > particular directory and as you can see this is really screwed up.
> > dr-xr-xr-x 6 0 0 Dec 31 1969 cygdrive
> >
> > Can I change the date? Touch doesn't work, I tried:-(
>
> You cannot change the date, as /cygdrive is a virtual filesystem, and its
> stats are set within the main Cygwin DLL (you can, of course, patch
> Cygwin and rebuild the DLL).
>
> Now, the above date is equivalent to the value 0 of the "date" field
> ("1970-01-01, 00:00 GMT", converted to your time zone). Funnily enough,
> if you were in the GMT+k timezones, you would probably not have this
> problem.
>
> The main question is: how does the Microsoft date function even get to see
> the date on /cygdrive? /cygdrive is not visible to non-Cygwin
> applications (unless it's a real directory, in which case its date as seen
> by Windows would be very different from the one seen by Cygwin).
>
> At this point, the standard <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PPAST> request is
> in order. Please make sure your test case is (a) small, (b) complete
> (i.e., builds OOTB using standard Cygwin tools), and (c) exhibits the
> problem.
> Igor
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Antoine W. Solomon Jr.
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