Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 16:37:28 -0400 To: WTerryLincoln@engineer.com Cc: "'itz@lbin.com'" , "'pedwards@jaj.com'" , "'cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com'" , "'John.Wiersba@medstat.com'" Subject: Re: question (latest "stable" dll?) + bugs: vim, bash, gcc, cp, f ind, less, zip, ls Message-ID: <19990622163728.B29902@cygnus.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.3i In-Reply-To: ; from Lincoln, W. Terry on Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 02:55:41PM -0400 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? 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 -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com