From cygwin-return-60673-listarch-cygwin=sourceware dot cygnus dot com at cygwin dot com Wed Oct 30 23:19:39 2002 Return-Path: Delivered-To: listarch-cygwin at sourceware dot cygnus dot com Received: (qmail 16802 invoked by alias); 30 Oct 2002 23:19:39 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help at cygwin dot com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner at cygwin dot com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin at cygwin dot com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin at cygwin dot com Received: (qmail 16730 invoked from network); 30 Oct 2002 23:19:38 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO relay2.softcomca.com) (168.144.1.68) by sources dot redhat dot com with SMTP; 30 Oct 2002 23:19:38 -0000 Received: from M2W098.mail2web.com ([168.144.108.98]) by relay2.softcomca.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:19:37 -0500 Message-ID: <293580-2200210330231937702@M2W098.mail2web.com> X-Priority: 3 Reply-To: lhall at rfk dot com X-Originating-IP: 209.113.174.244 From: "lhall at pop dot ma dot ultranet dot com" To: dennis at cs dot colorado dot edu, cygwin at cygwin dot com Subject: Re: init_cygheap::etc_changed: Can't open /etc for checking, Win32 error Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 18:19:37 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-OriginalArrivalTime: 30 Oct 2002 23:19:37.0965 (UTC) FILETIME=[D0E989D0:01C2806A] Sounds like there was more to this thread but I can't find it=2E Anyway, I'm not sure where you got the idea that no one will be fixing any issue in this regard=2E Certainly if no one is going=20 to fix the issue, no one is going to make a temporary fix=2E ;-) Perhaps others aren't seeing the problem you're seeing=2E Did=20 the email thread of this issue contain any information about=20 the details of the problem you saw? Is this something that you're willing to spend some time tracking down? Sorry if I'm rehashing things=2E Perhaps a pointer to the start of this thread is all that's needed=2E Larry Original Message: ----------------- From: Dennis Heimbigner dennis@cs=2Ecolorado=2Eedu Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 15:27:50 -0700 To: cygwin@cygwin=2Ecom Subject: Re: init_cygheap::etc_changed: Can't open /etc for checking, Win3= 2 error The following does not appear to be correct=2E I use Win98 and it has occurred since 1=2E13=2E6 when I am doing a normal install into d:\tools\cygwin13 (a FAT32 file system)=2E It appears that no one is willing to actually solve this problem=2E Can we do a temporary fix by including a test for some environment variable or something so that the error gets suppressed? > The function works on non-NTFS filesystems=2E You, yourself, noted that= > it works on directories exported from a Samba server=2E It also works o= n > Windows 9x which doesn't natively understand NTFS filesystems=2E >=20 > It apparently doesn't work on a Novell netware drive=2E That's been not= ed > repeatedly here=2E It sounds like a netware bug to me=2E >=20 > cgf >=20 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin=2Ecom/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin=2Ecom/bugs=2Ehtml Documentation: http://cygwin=2Ecom/docs=2Ehtml FAQ: http://cygwin=2Ecom/faq/ -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web=2Ecom/ =2E -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/