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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: 1.7 constantly accesses floppy drive
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On Jul 14 19:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jul 14 13:16, Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
> > Lee Maschmeyer wrote:
> >> Attached is the output of the command:
> >> strace -o strace_ls.log ls 1.7-log.txt
> >> I don't think it tells us anything we didn't know. Cygwin, down under the 
> >> hood, thinks Windows is on a: but all its variables show that it's on c:, 
> >> as do Windows variables.
> >
> > To me this suggests that there could be a problem with getwinenv() but
> > I can't say more than that at the moment.
> [...]
> I'll try to figure out the cause of this problem.

Found it.  I introduced a subtle bug in Cygwin's strncasecmp function.
Will be fixed in the next 1.7.0 test release.


Corinna

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