On 2022-04-02 01:37, Backwoods BC wrote:
https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-find_fast_cwd-warnings
I've only been on this list a few months, but I've seen these
"find_fast_cwd" questions about twice a month so far.
Might I suggest that replacing the
"Please report this problem to the public mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com"
message in 'bash' with something like:
"Please visit
https://cygwin.com/faq.html#faq.using.fixing-find_fast_cwd-warnings
for help with this issue"
This has been done in recent releases for some years, but ancient legacy
releases without changes are still distributed by/with some products or
projects, with no effort to upgrade what they distribute, mention of how
to upgrade, responsibility for or to their users.
Please read the linked FAQ entry for that explanation.
Ancient legacy repos such as SourceForge and GoogleCode are fertile
sources of such projects as are products from (some not so) defunct
embedded systems tool developers.
This removes the need for an autoresponder and is more helpful at the
same time. Users might be reluctant to join the mailing list just to
report this and therefore they may waste their time needlessly trying
to track down the problem.
That was why the autoresponder was added - reply directly to those folks
and point them to a greatly expanded FAQ entry with relevant links
explaining the problem and solution, and suggesting other actions.
I don't remember anyone clicking the email link at the end to let us
know what a product or project was or where it came from, so someone on
the list could follow up.
And folks wonder why there are software supply chain security issues!
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