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From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Cc: Ruurd Beerstra <ruurdb@wxs.nl>
Subject: Re: Inode number and file size problems in version 3.2.1
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 11:53:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f03451b0-a21e-4854-23c1-0afccd50a02d@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0d901ab3-0e3c-5e27-5d2e-6617466837de@wxs.nl>

[Please don't top-post on this list.  Thanks.]

On 7/6/2021 5:15 AM, Ruurd Beerstra wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I missed those question - sorry. This ping is the first I saw i response to my 
> question.

That was my guess and was the reason I added you to the CC on the ping and on 
this message.  (The custom on this list is *not* to do that.)

> The drive "i:" is a simple "subst":
> 
> C:\>subst
> I:\: => C:\users\ruurd
> 
> C:\>
> 
> But, to my surprise, that actually causes the problem!  The cygwin64.broken is 
> the Cygwin version with the problem.
> If I use the SUBST drive, I get the wrong dates, sizes and inodes. When I use it 
> directly, it is OK!

[...]

I think I see the commit that introduced this bug, and Corinna just reverted it.

> I'll try and use the snapshot this evening.

Or you could wait until Corinna has a chance to make a new snapshot that 
includes what I think is the fix.

Ken

  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-06 15:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-01 12:15 Ruurd Beerstra
2021-07-01 16:21 ` Ken Brown
2021-07-05 18:19   ` Ken Brown
2021-07-06  9:15     ` Ruurd Beerstra
2021-07-06 15:53       ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-07-07  8:50         ` Corinna Vinschen
2021-07-07 17:08           ` Ken Brown
2021-07-01 17:14 ` Brian Inglis

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