On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:11:23AM +0100, Reini Urban wrote: >2006/1/26, Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 03:39:14AM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >> >>Has a fix been found for building emacs on the new cygwin versions 5.19 >> >>and up yet? >> > >> >Yes - browse the list archives - the idea is that anywhere that emacs >> >uses a non-zero d_ino to mean the entry returned from readdir is valid, >> >just add a small patch to that area of code that treats ALL directory >> >entries as valid without reading d_ino. >> >> FWIW, it looks like some of our highly trained on-staff programmers may >> have a plan for resurrecting an all-singing/all-dancing d_ino for every >> platform but NT4. >> >> So, expect d_ino in a snapshot soon - back in Cygwin by popular demand. >> And, if you're using NT4 - well sorry. You can blame that programmer or >> programmers for not being clever enough to figure out how to make it >> work there. > >So seperate emacs binaries for NT4 and Win95, besides the good >= XP?
No. There would be no change in inode behavior for Win9x since those systems do not have real inodes. Only NT4 would suffer from the old problem of d_ino being != st_ino. But, then, one of our staff engineers has reported a setback in using this technique so maybe I was premature in announcing victory. cgf -- 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/
