Corinna Vinschen writes: > > On Jan 13 06:40, Eric Blake wrote: > > In trying to get the newly released coreutils 5.3.0 tarball working on > > cygwin, I discovered that cygwin chown() has a bug. Background: > Do you intend to take over maintainership of coreutils? I would be *so* > happy!
You're on to me! I was hoping to get a successful build locally before making my intents public, but yes, I was trying to see if I could take over maintainership. > > Did you see my Cygwin specific patches in the source tar archive of > coreutils 5.2.1 in the Cygwin net distro? It's all in the subdirectory > called "CYGWIN", diffs and ChangeLogs. I've seen the patches, but haven't tried to fold them into the 5.3.0 release yet. I'm not sure how easily they will apply, so I wanted to get a pristine coreutils tarball working as much as possible first. > > However, in cygwin, chown() appears to have no effect whatsoever on the > > change time. (gid_t)0 is the 'root' group. I tested this on a WinXP > > I'm going to fix that. Thanks. I verified that the 20050114 snapshot fixed chown() bug. -- Eric Blake -- 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/
