X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
From: Danilo Turina <danilo DOT turina AT alcatel DOT it>
Subject:  Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot
Date:  Thu, 27 Apr 2006 15:38:27 +0200
Lines: 30
Message-ID: <e2qhd5$qot$1@sea.gmane.org>
References:  <042720061327 DOT 212 DOT 4450C6A60001E0B3000000D422073007930A050E040D0C079D0A AT comcast DOT net>
Mime-Version:  1.0
Content-Type:  text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding:  7bit
User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308)
In-Reply-To: <042720061327.212.4450C6A60001E0B3000000D422073007930A050E040D0C079D0A@comcast.net>
X-IsSubscribed: yes
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:cygwin-unsubscribe-archive-cygwin=delorie DOT com AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com

Eric Blake wrote:
>>> Another set of tests is to use the experimental coreutils-5.94-5.
>>> Doing/bin/pwd inside a directory on the strange filesystem stress tests
>>> d_ino (I already know that on ClearCase (MVFS), /bin/pwd fails inside of
>>> versioned directories, such as ccase/foo@@/main/, since ClearCase refuses
>>> to list foo@@ in a readdir of ccase, but that is not cygwin's bug).  And
>> [...]
>>
>> I tried /bin/pwd and pwd in a versioned directory 
>> (.../business@@/main/...) and it works. Do you mean that it doesn't work 
>> with the current snapshot or with the current stable version? Which test 
>> exactly fails?
> 
> If you are using 5.94-5, then you are necessarily using a snapshot, and
> /bin/pwd would fail inside the versioned directory because I compiled it
> to use readdir() instead of getcwd(), and clearcase readdir() intentionally
> fails to list buisiness@@ when listing its parent directory.  But coreutils
> 5.94-1 (and the eventual 5.94-6) stick with getcwd(), so that you should
> have no problems from inside a Clearcase versioned directory.  And just
> to be sure, I will repeat my tests when I am at work today and have
> access to a clearcase drive, in case my claims about /bin/pwd were
> not quite accurate after all.
> 

No, sorry: I'm not using a snapshot. I thought you intended to say that 
/bin/pwd would have failed also with the current version.

Ciao,

		Danilo


--
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/