Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/02/03/14:01:40
It looks like B19 will probably be released with some outstanding problems.
Possibly these are not issues to Cygnus customers but many of them crop
up once a day on the mailing list.
I'm not expecting answers to these. I'm just raising these issues
in hopes that they may be useful to know.
1) d_ino in dirent structure != st_ino in stat structure.
2) No resolution to binmode/textmode constant topic of conversation in
the mailing list.
3) No resolution to case sensitive/case insensitive constant topic of
conversation in the mailing list.
4) Is it easier to build .dlls with B19 than it was with B18? That's
another hot button.
5) Is there going to be an automated way to set all the correct environment
variables so that gcc will work "out of the box" or does it already?
It's been so long that I can't remember.
6) If Sergey's patch to copy the data section of .dlls is not incorporated
then there will be issues with some ported X programs, I believe.
7) Is it possible to link MSVC objects using ld? There was a patch posted
to the mailing list recently that applied cleanly over a recent GAS
snapshot that ostensibly allowed this.
8) Is ash or bash going to be distributed as /bin/sh?
9) Will less and/or man be distributed? That's another hot button.
10) Will inetd, telnetd, et. al. be available somewhere?
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