From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1688 invoked by alias); 12 Sep 2002 17:46:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 1672 invoked from network); 12 Sep 2002 17:46:04 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO web21007.mail.yahoo.com) (216.136.227.61) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 12 Sep 2002 17:46:04 -0000 Message-ID: <20020912174604.47836.qmail@web21007.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [130.127.122.186] by web21007.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:46:04 PDT Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 10:53:00 -0000 From: Nicholas Wourms Subject: Re: Release candidate 1: /etc/hosts To: cygwin@cygwin.com Cc: Paul Johnston In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-09/txt/msg00606.txt.bz2 --- Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Paul Johnston wrote: > > > Hi, > > Thanks to Corinna, Joe, Nicholas, Warren and especially Igor, > this > > script should now be good enough. I've successfully tested it on > XP > > only. > > This works on Windows 98 (sort of): > > BASH-2.05b$ uname -a > CYGWIN_98-4.10 FAETON 1.3.12(0.54/3/2) 2002-07-06 02:16 i686 > unknown > BASH-2.05b$ ./make-etc-links.sh > create symbolic link `/etc/hosts' to `/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/hosts' > create symbolic link `/etc/protocols' to > `/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/protocol' > create symbolic link `/etc/services' to > `/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/services' > create symbolic link `/etc/networks' to > `/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/networks' > BASH-2.05b$ > > However, two problems: > > 1) When the script has run, but created a link to a non-existent > file, and > then run again: > > BASH-2.05b$ ./make-etc-links.sh > /bin/ln: `/etc/protocols': File exists > BASH-2.05b$ ls /etc/protocols > /etc/protocols > BASH-2.05b$ [ ! -e /etc/protocols ]; echo $? > 0 > BASH-2.05b$ [ ! -L /etc/protocols ]; echo $? > 1 > BASH-2.05b$ > > The -e test apparently fails if the file is a symbolic link to a > non-existent file (is this a bug?). I've attached the correction. > > 2) CYGWIN="check_case:strict" > As I suspected earlier, this fails -- the links are created, but an > attempt to cat the files results in "no such file or directory", > and an > attempt to save the file after editing results in a write error. > On my > Windows 98, cygwin interprets the filenames for c:\windows\hosts, > etc, as > all caps. I don't know how important this is to pursue. Why not just check for all the possible combinations [HOSTS, Hosts, hosts]? I use check_case:strict on a daily basis. If you don't use it, then you cannot compile gcj java programs at times. Also, you cannot bootstrap gcc with java enabled. I think this is important and heads of questions in the long run. Cheers, Nicholas __________________________________________________ Yahoo! - We Remember 9-11: A tribute to the more than 3,000 lives lost http://dir.remember.yahoo.com/tribute -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/