Re: [Patch] Add dirent.d_type support to Cygwin 1.7 ?

2008-11-28 Thread Jim Meyering
"James Youngman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> [dropping cygwin-patches, since posts are closed to non-subscribers, and >> adding bug-findutils and bug-gnulib. Christian

special characters in filenames in error messages

2008-11-28 Thread Karl Berry
Some months ago we discussed a convention for supporting "special" characters in filenames ("sources") in error messages. Our conclusion then was to support C-style escapes. I wrote a patch for standards.texi saying as much and sent it to rms. He rejected it, saying the idea was fine, but that th

Re: gettimeofday does not link with g++

2008-11-28 Thread Simon Josefsson
Brian Dessent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> any ideas? > > It looks like lib/sys_time.in.h needs the same 'extern "C"' treatment. I pushed this. /Simon >From 19f2f429543482797a238618a51be114d6f11483 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:33

Re: [Patch] Add dirent.d_type support to Cygwin 1.7 ?

2008-11-28 Thread Christian Franke
Eric Blake wrote: According to Christian Franke on 11/27/2008 2:41 PM: PS: find is not as smart as expected: 'find /path -type d' calls lstat() for each entry, even if d_type != DT_UNKNOWN. So 'find /path' is 2-3 times faster than 'find /path -type d'. This seems like it might be a bu

Re: [Patch] Add dirent.d_type support to Cygwin 1.7 ?

2008-11-28 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Eric Blake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [dropping cygwin-patches, since posts are closed to non-subscribers, and > adding bug-findutils and bug-gnulib. Christian is working on a patch that > lets cygwin do initia