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Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:41:30 +0100
From: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
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Subject: Re: [1.7] deleting in-use directories
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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr  9 16:13, Eric Blake wrote:
>> The Autoconf testsuite is failing several tests on cygwin 1.7 that used to pass 
>> on cygwin 1.5.  I've traced it to the fact that 1.7 is trying to be smarter 
>> about deleting in-use files and directories, but doesn't quite get things right.
> 
> Incredible but true.  It was an alignment problem with a local buffer
> in the function which moves the directory to the bin when a sharing
> violation occurs.  This seems to be a new problem with gcc-4.  As long
> as I built Cygwin with gcc-3, I never had this problem.

  -vvvv?  What alignment does the buffer require?  What did it end up getting
with gcc-4?

    cheers,
      DaveK


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