Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/08/16/14:17:51
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:52:23PM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 11:49 AM 8/16/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>
> >How do you know it is "a small patch"? Have you actually looked at the
> >code? I find that unlikely.
>
> I had not looked at the source, but figured it most likely was not that big
> a change. I now have looked at the sources, and minus the makefile changes,
> the diff between the upstream 3.80 and 3.81 is about 450 lines of diff.
> Although if you removed the command.com changes, and only used sh to launch
> stuff, the changes would be much smaller than that.
>
> I can see why it would not be accepted upstream as is:
>
> ChangeLog.RedHat: * vpath.c: use cygwin32_win32_to_posix_path_list() in
> ChangeLog.RedHat: cygwin.dll library to accept both posix and win32 paths
>
> It makes a call to cygwin.dll.
>
> So, I suppose a new patch would be needed up stream that did not have the
> command.com stuff ( I don't think it is being missed). The new patch would only
> put in support for drive letters to work, and I would think that it would be much
> smaller.
Hi Bill,
Do you plan on creating a patch to make that would provide the 3.80
functionality?
Bob Rossi
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