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Re: MSYS mode (continue)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 12:37:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: MSYS mode (continue)
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On Jul 4 14:23, Alexey Pavlov wrote:
> 2013/7/4 Corinna Vinschen:
> > On Jul 4 12:37, Alexey Pavlov wrote:
> >> 2013/7/4 Corinna Vinschen:
> >> > On Jul 4 13:09, Alexey Pavlov wrote:
> >> >> 2013-06-18 Alexey Pavlov
> >> >>
> >> >> * mount.cc: Allow using a shortened version of mount points in /etc/fstab
> >> >> * utsname.h: Increase sysname fiels size.
> >> >> * uname.cc: Allow changing OS name by MSYSTEM environment variable.
> >> >> [...SNIP...]
> >> >
> >> > Can we please move patch submissions to the cygwin-patches mailing list?
> >> > Thank you.
> >> >
> >> >> Index: cygwin/include/sys/utsname.h
> >> >> ===================================================================
> >> >> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygwin/include/sys/utsname.h,v
> >> >> retrieving revision 1.3
> >> >> diff -u -p -r1.3 utsname.h
> >> >> --- cygwin/include/sys/utsname.h 21 Jan 2013 04:38:31 -0000 1.3
> >> >> +++ cygwin/include/sys/utsname.h 18 Jun 2013 11:39:27 -0000
> >> >> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ extern "C" {
> >> >>
> >> >> struct utsname
> >> >> {
> >> >> - char sysname[20];
> >> >> + char sysname[21];
> >> >
> >> > We can't do that. struct utsname is a publically facing structure.
> >> > If you change the size, you're breaking compatibility with existing
> >> > applications.
> >> >
> >> > You should better drop some character from the string you want to enter
> >> > here.
> >> >
> >>
> >> I can't drop any symbol from "MINGW32" word :)
> >
> > That's not 20 chars long.
> >
> Yes. But not only this need to be in 20 symbols. On cygwin 20 symbols is:
>
> CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64\0
>
> But
>
> MINGW32_NT-6.1-WOW64\0
>
> is 21 symbol.
Then drop the dash between "NT" and "6.1". Or let's drop the WOW64
since it's redundant anyway, given the content of "machine".
Corinna
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