X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:34:03 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: 1.7.1: cvs version built in is unstable Message-ID: <20100407083403.GD27428@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4BBBDA78.10002@cwilson.fastmail.fm> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4BBBDA78.10002@cwilson.fastmail.fm> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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 Apr 6 21:06, Charles Wilson wrote: > On 4/6/2010 1:33 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote: > > Is it possible to change the setting of "POSIX_NO_TRUNC"? > > No. That symbol (accurately) describes the underlying behavior of the C > runtime library (in this case, the new cygwin1.dll) and is defined in > /usr/include/sys/features.h. You really don't want to start lying about > the behavior of your C library; that way lies madness. The real solution lies in Cygwin, I fear. We probably have to add a tweak to the pathname handling which reverts to good old Win32 compatible filenames (no leading spaces, no trailing dots and spaces) when the target filesystem is Samba. I look into it, but maybe not for 1.7.4. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple