From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 110890 invoked by alias); 27 Aug 2019 17:50:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 110873 invoked by uid 89); 27 Aug 2019 17:50:03 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.1 spammy=wave, HX-Spam-Relays-External:ESMTPA X-HELO: vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net Received: from vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (HELO vsmx012.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net) (153.92.174.90) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:50:01 +0000 Received: from vsmx004.vodafonemail.xion.oxcs.net (unknown [192.168.75.198]) by mta-8-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7BA43F34D49 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:49:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from Rainer.invalid (unknown [84.160.192.162]) by mta-8-out.mta.xion.oxcs.net (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 505ED19ADA9 for ; Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:49:56 +0000 (UTC) From: Achim Gratz To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Future setup regression caused by 'mkdir: always check-for-existence' commit References: <860a3bd2-fc37-27c0-54f3-0fce8add7c24@cornell.edu> Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2019 17:54:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Stephen Provine via cygwin's message of "Mon, 26 Aug 2019 22:13:19 +0000") Message-ID: <877e6y7b24.fsf@Rainer.invalid> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.2 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-SW-Source: 2019-08/txt/msg00340.txt.bz2 Stephen Provine via cygwin writes: > I should also point out that this change in behavior starts not in > 3.1.0 but in 3.0.7-3, and in-between 3.0.7-1 and 3.0.7-3 the commit I > mention seemed like the most reasonable reason for it. You should also point out that you are talking not about Cygwin, but the bundled w/ GfW Msys2 here. There is no 3.0.7-3 Cygwin. > All this said, Cygwin succeeds in both cases. And now that I look, I > think the Cygwin setup program explicitly creates "/dev" as a standard > directory so it avoids this change in behavior. Yes, as I already wrote yesterday. > Given that the new behavior is obviously correct, I assume this means > there is nothing for Cygwin to do, and the fix is for Git for Windows > to explicitly create this directory. Preferrably, yes. Regards, Achim. -- +<[Q+ Matrix-12 WAVE#46+305 Neuron microQkb Andromeda XTk Blofeld]>+ SD adaptations for KORG EX-800 and Poly-800MkII V0.9: http://Synth.Stromeko.net/Downloads.html#KorgSDada -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple