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Re: question (latest "stable" dll?) + bugs: vim, bash, gcc, cp, find, less, zip, ls
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- Subject: Re: question (latest "stable" dll?) + bugs: vim, bash, gcc, cp, find, less, zip, ls
- From: "Lincoln, W. Terry" <terryl@ultimatetechnology.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jun 1999 09:13:16 -0400
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chris Faylor [mailto:cgf@cygnus.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 1999 4:37 PM
> To: WTerryLincoln@engineer.com
>
>
> 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?
Sorry Chris,
I have been somewhat reluctant to download and install some of these newer
releases because while a few bugs have been addressed and fixed, I have been
reading about other semi-crippling bugs being introduced.
I have been looking for announcements in this list of significant fixes such
as you mention, but perhaps I lost some mail that did that.
Since I have not been fully apprised of which bugs have been backed out I
haven't bothered to change. Also, since the last DLL I have has been the
most stable _for me_, I didn't install the March 28 version *yet* ;-)
I guess that I will have to update again and hope for increased
functionality (at the expense of changing share
>
> 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
>
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