Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT sources DOT redhat DOT com Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 08:38:29 -0500 From: Andy Philpotts X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.47 Halloween Edition) Reply-To: "andy.philpotts" Organization: Product Development X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <73513460386.20001101083829@calendarcentral.com> To: Christopher Faylor Subject: Re[2]: latest cygwin does not track pwd? In-reply-To: <20001101005246.A6570@redhat.com> References: <14847 DOT 5635 DOT 636000 DOT 348903 AT gargle DOT gargle DOT HOWL> <4 DOT 3 DOT 1 DOT 2 DOT 20001031140921 DOT 02027560 AT pop DOT ma DOT ultranet DOT com> <20001031142519 DOT B28272 AT redhat DOT com> <39FF9C8C DOT 7597BC80 AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu> <20001101005246 DOT A6570 AT redhat DOT com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello Christopher, I agree with you wrt it being undesirable to accomodate a perl bug. Are you also setting errno to EINVAL? I'd refer to the source for cygwin but I'm too busy downloading the source to perl! Wednesday, November 01, 2000, 12:52:46 AM, you wrote: CF> On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 11:31:08PM -0500, Charles Wilson wrote: >>Christopher Faylor wrote: >>cwd = >> >>just as Richard Kim says. The code for Cwd::cwd on cygwin is >>implemented by /cygwin.c -- but I don't know why it's >>failing. Patches gratefully accepted (and archived -- I'm not planning >>to release a new perl build myself until 5.6.1 comes out; and probably >>not even then if a third party takes the initiative... CF> The problem is that it looks like perl is calling getcwd like this: CF> getcwd (NULL, 0); CF> and cygwin is returning a NULL, as is mandated by both the Single Unix CF> Specification and the linux man page. 1.1.4 allowed zero length length CF> arguments but that was a bug that I fixed in 1.1.5. CF> I had no idea that people were relying on the bug. CF> I'm not sure what to do about this. I am loathe to accomodate a bug CF> like this but I don't want to force a new perl release or endure to the CF> next two years of "I cygwined my perl 1.1.[5-9] and it am broke" messages CF> either. CF> cgf CF> -- CF> Want to unsubscribe from this list? CF> Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com -- Andy Philpotts Senior Software Developer CalendarCentral Inc. [w] 919/654-6200 xt.155 [c] 919/656-1166 [e] andy DOT philpotts AT calendarcentral DOT com [www] www.calendarcentral.com Andy says: I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com