X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:48:42 -0400 From: "Antoine Solomon" To: cygwin@cygwin.com, "Igor Peshansky" Subject: Re: cygdrive uses incorrect date In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id k3EHmsmX026575 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 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 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 > -- > http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ > |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha@cs.nyu.edu | igor@watson.ibm.com > ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Igor Peshansky, Ph.D. (name changed!) > |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' old name: Igor Pechtchanski > '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! > > "Las! je suis sot... -Mais non, tu ne l'es pas, puisque tu t'en rends compte." > "But no -- you are no fool; you call yourself a fool, there's proof enough in > that!" -- Rostand, "Cyrano de Bergerac" > -- Antoine W. Solomon Jr. -- 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/