Eric Blake <ericblake <at> comcast.net> writes: > > An experimental release of coreutils, 5.94-2, is available to help test > the latest snapshots in preparation for cygwin 1.5.20. To use this > version, you must have a recent snapshot (20060220 or later) > installed, then use the Exp button of setup.exe to select the > experimental version of coreutils.
Well, I guess not many people used it, due to the lack of complaints to this list that -2 had a packaging bug (all my cygwin-specific patches were lost, so some programs such as cat fail if stdin is read-write instead of read-only, or cp not coping with .exe extensions). I've now uploaded -3, with the same rules about it being experimental - use it to test out snapshots for the upcoming cygwin 1.5.20, and report if /bin/pwd fails to match the shell builtin 'pwd -P', or if '\ls -i' fails to give the same inode numbers as '\ls -iF'. I did add a patch to ls, so that 'ls -Li' now uses d_ino rather than going about with a wasteful stat, so this mode of operation, although not the usual option set, will run faster. This patch is also being considered upstream for use in the eventual coreutils 6.0. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer -- 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/
