From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Lincoln, W. Terry" To: 'Cygwin Mailing List' Subject: Re: question (latest "stable" dll?) + bugs: vim, bash, gcc, cp, find, less, zip, ls Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 22:10:00 -0000 Message-ID: X-SW-Source: 1999-06n/msg00524.html Message-ID: <19990630221000.D7LEG4Ybwf_P0qaeES5McoM2-yKJETg-rhTYoT1LSXE@z> > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Faylor [ mailto:cgf@cygnus.com ] > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 4:37 PM > To: WTerryLincoln@engineer.com > > > On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 02:55:41PM -0400, Lincoln, W. Terry wrote: > >> From: itz@lbin.com [ mailto:itz@lbin.com ] > >> But both these problems are symptoms of a bug in the path > translation > >> layer that was only addressed on March 28. A simpler way to > >> demonstrate the problem is just to create a mount point and try to > >> access a file below it with a relative path. A real > killer bug IMHO > >> but MHO doesn't count :-) > > > >I am afraid I too agree that this is pretty much a utility > killer of a bug. > >Perhaps this will someday be addressed and a real solution > will be put > >forth. This BUG has crippled many of my out-of-box porting > attempts. :-( > > Did you read the part that said "was... addressed on March > 28"? What kind > of "real solution" were you looking for besides a change to > the DLL which > fixes the problem? Sorry Chris, I have been somewhat reluctant to download and install some of these newer releases because while a few bugs have been addressed and fixed, I have been reading about other semi-crippling bugs being introduced. I have been looking for announcements in this list of significant fixes such as you mention, but perhaps I lost some mail that did that. Since I have not been fully apprised of which bugs have been backed out I haven't bothered to change. Also, since the last DLL I have has been the most stable _for me_, I didn't install the March 28 version *yet* ;-) I guess that I will have to update again and hope for increased functionality (at the expense of changing share > > Incidentally, this terrible, unbelievably crippling bug has > been in cygwin > pretty much since the beginning. > > Also, I could be wrong, but I believe that this is also > solved by creating > the appropriate directories in your root, as is suggested > when you use the > mount program. > > cgf > W. Terry Lincoln - Senior Engineer \ \ _ / Ultimate Technology Corporation \ \ |J| / a Tridex Company (NASDAQ:trdx) \ _|E|_ ICQ < http://wwp.icq.com/39362285 > \ |_ S _| Email: < mailto:WTerryLincoln@engineer.com > \ |U| < http://www.AngelFire.com/ny/TerryLincoln > \ / |S| \ < http://www.geocities.com/Eureka/Concourse/7326 > \ | | ================================================== ~~~~~ Opinions expressed do not represent the management of UTC. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com