I notice a thread on cygwin's inability to create folders/files on a network drive (http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2011-08/msg00136.html). Corinna's advice to use to snapshot worked for me. However, I found that when I upgraded cygwin some time afterward, the problem recurred. I had to re-do the advice that she posted.
That thread was posted well in the past, and I wanted to check if the snapshot from that time has made it into the cygwin update. The most straightforward way seemed to be comparing dll file dates. To find what file was relevant, I did "cygcheck -cvs" and used vim to search for the pattern "cygwin\f*\.dll" (without quotes), which showed cygwin1.dll. The page http://cygwin.com/packages/cygwin/cygwin-1.7.9-1 showed that cygwin1.dll is still dated 29 Mar 2011, which means it's from well before the above thread. Approximately how often do the solutions in the snapshots get incorporated into the packages that are installed/updated with Setup.exe? The reason why I wanted to update cygwin was to update octave. It's wavread function has a bug, and I wanted to see if it was solved. Since I suspect that the cygwin.dll is pretty central to the unix environment offered to applications, would it be wise to update octave without udpating cygwin? (My next step is to search for octave release notes to determine whether the bug is fixed in the version that comes with cygwin). -- 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
