X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <17393e3e0812111130n3dda8d05n8465481c68b97596@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2008 14:30:07 -0500 From: "Matt Wozniski" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today In-Reply-To: <4941587D.5070109@cornell.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <4941587D.5070109@cornell.edu> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: 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, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > One other thing I've noticed, which I think is unrelated, is that there is a > glitch in directory listing in emacs under cygwin 1.7: If you try to list a > directory with control-x d, very often the directory listing makes it look > like the directory is empty when it isn't. Typing "g" (to ask emacs to > redisplay the directory) usually results in a correct listing. I initially > thought this might also be related to st_nlink, but I think emacs simply > calls "ls -al" to do the listing, so there's probably no connection. I'm > wondering if it might be related to whatever changes were made to cygwin so > that directory listings are faster (as reported in [2]). > [2] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-12/msg00246.html With no knowledge of cygwin's internals, I'd much sooner guess the changes to the pipe code... ~Matt -- 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/