Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Thu Apr 27 13:45:00 GMT 2006

Eric Blake wrote:
>>> Another set of tests is to use the experimental coreutils-5.94-5.
>>> Doing/bin/pwd inside a directory on the strange filesystem stress tests
>>> d_ino (I already know that on ClearCase (MVFS), /bin/pwd fails inside of
>>> versioned directories, such as ccase/foo@@/main/, since ClearCase refuses
>>> to list foo@@ in a readdir of ccase, but that is not cygwin's bug). And
>> [...]
>>>> I tried /bin/pwd and pwd in a versioned directory 
>> (.../business@@/main/...) and it works. Do you mean that it doesn't work 
>> with the current snapshot or with the current stable version? Which test 
>> exactly fails?
>> If you are using 5.94-5, then you are necessarily using a snapshot, and
> /bin/pwd would fail inside the versioned directory because I compiled it
> to use readdir() instead of getcwd(), and clearcase readdir() intentionally
> fails to list buisiness@@ when listing its parent directory. But coreutils
> 5.94-1 (and the eventual 5.94-6) stick with getcwd(), so that you should
> have no problems from inside a Clearcase versioned directory. And just
> to be sure, I will repeat my tests when I am at work today and have
> access to a clearcase drive, in case my claims about /bin/pwd were
> not quite accurate after all.
>
No, sorry: I'm not using a snapshot. I thought you intended to say that 
/bin/pwd would have failed also with the current version.
Ciao,
		Danilo
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