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Subject: Re: pagefile.sys is reported as being a directory
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From: Ken Brown via Cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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On 5/3/2024 3:31 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Ken,
> 
>> It turns out that this was a regression in 3.5.3 and was already
>> reported (in a slightly different form) in
>>
>>     https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-April/255812.html
>>
>> and fixed for 3.5.4.
> 
> Thanks for the investigations!
> 
>>> Do you have a workaround? In Gnulib we wish to have a way to access this file,
>>> that works on all versions of Cygwin.
>>
>> 3.5.3 is the only version that's bad.
> 
> The regression was apparently caused by commit
> c1cf14a871528d1adba88a0128813b58d52ba926 on the cygwin-3_5-branch. Therefore
> the affected versions are 3.5.2 and 3.5.3.

Just for the record, there never was a release 3.5.2.  But that doesn't 
matter for your workaround.

>> I can't think of a workaround
> 
> I think I'll just make the boot time function skip that file if it
> appears to be a directory.

Sounds good.

Ken

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