X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 11:29:32 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: new cygwin dlls Message-ID: <20060126162932.GK26563@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <012620060339.28204.43D84462000B51C000006E2C22007374780A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net> <20060126040648.GE20309@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <6910a60601252311j3a967f16t@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6910a60601252311j3a967f16t@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:11:23AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: >2006/1/26, Christopher Faylor : >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:39:14AM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >> >>Has a fix been found for building emacs on the new cygwin versions 5.19 >> >>and up yet? >> > >> >Yes - browse the list archives - the idea is that anywhere that emacs >> >uses a non-zero d_ino to mean the entry returned from readdir is valid, >> >just add a small patch to that area of code that treats ALL directory >> >entries as valid without reading d_ino. >> >> FWIW, it looks like some of our highly trained on-staff programmers may >> have a plan for resurrecting an all-singing/all-dancing d_ino for every >> platform but NT4. >> >> So, expect d_ino in a snapshot soon - back in Cygwin by popular demand. >> And, if you're using NT4 - well sorry. You can blame that programmer or >> programmers for not being clever enough to figure out how to make it >> work there. > >So seperate emacs binaries for NT4 and Win95, besides the good >= XP? No. There would be no change in inode behavior for Win9x since those systems do not have real inodes. Only NT4 would suffer from the old problem of d_ino being != st_ino. But, then, one of our staff engineers has reported a setback in using this technique so maybe I was premature in announcing victory. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/