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Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 19:54:54 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [Fwd: [21.1] work around cygwin readlink bug]
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In-Reply-To: <3A3EA9F2.E626B2B@ece.gatech.edu>; from cwilson@ece.gatech.edu on Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:21:06PM -0500

On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 07:21:06PM -0500, Charles S. Wilson wrote:
>Saw this message on the xemacs-nt mailing list.  Is this a known bug in
>cygwin-1.1.6 ?

READLINK(2)         Linux Programmer's Manual         READLINK(2)

NAME
       readlink - read value of a symbolic link

SYNOPSIS
       #include <unistd.h>

       int readlink(const char *path, char *buf, size_t bufsiz);

DESCRIPTION
       readlink  places the contents of the symbolic link path in
       the buffer buf, which has size bufsiz.  readlink does  not
       append  a NUL character to buf.  It will truncate the con-
       tents (to a length of  bufsiz  characters),  in  case  the
       buffer is too small to hold all of the contents.

I believe that the previous, incorrect behavior was discovered by
Egor Duda's test suite.

cgf

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [21.1] work around cygwin readlink bug
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:54:05 +0000
From: Andy Piper <andyp AT bea DOT com>
To: xemacs-patches AT xemacs DOT org
CC: xemacs-nt AT xemacs DOT org

Cygwin 1.1.6 seems to have introduced a bug in readlink which stop
runemacs working correctly.  This patch works around it by forcing a
trailing 0 after .exe.


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