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: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 21:35:06 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: Incorrect readdir() behavour? Message-ID: <20011013213506.B396@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.21i On Sun, Oct 14, 2001 at 12:54:21AM +0000, John William wrote: >There seems to be a difference in behavour between RH Linux and Cygwin for >the following case: > >cur_dir=opendir(...); >while (cur_de=readdir(cur_dir)) >{ > do something with each entry > (while this is going on, files are added to the directory) >} >closedir(cur_dir); > >Under Linux, readdir() only returns the files that existed when opendir() >was called. With Cygwin, I get some of the new files added (but not all of >them). > >My versions are: latest (per the updater) for Cygwin, except I'm still using > >the 1.3.2 DLL; standard RH 7.1 but with 2.2.19 kernel. > >I am assuming that Linux is correct and that this is a bug in Cygwin's >readdir() routine? Nope. cygwin != linux http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/007908799/xsh/readdir.html cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/