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Re: findutils still broken


On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 02:37:58PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Apr 22 07:49, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 10:37:50AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >I'm not sure this presumption is correct.  The d_ino field is not marked
>> >as optional in SUSv3, it's marked as an XSI extension.  The crux with
>> >XSI extensions is that (quote SuSv3) "Application writers may confidently
>> >make use of an extension on all systems supporting the X/Open System
>> >Interfaces Extension."  This covers practically every serious system in
>> >the POSIX world right now.  If we drop d_ino, I'd expect another round
>> >of suddenly broken applications.
>> 
>> If there are programs out there which rely on d_ino then they are broken
>> on cygwin right now and have been for some time.
>
>It's more the existance than the correctness what I'm taking about.
>I can easily imagine applications using d_ino only for keeping track
>of directory content.  Mind you, I'm just concerned that dropping
>the struct member could affect applications.  OTOH, that's what porting
>is for, isn't it?

Right.  For the uninitiated, here's how porting works in cygwin land:

  Step one - notice that you want something.

  Step two - send email to the cygwin list asking where it is.

  Step three - download the package.

  Step four - send email to the cygwin list asking what a .tar.gz,
  .tar.bz2, or .tgz file is.

  Step five - unpack the file.

  Step six - send email to the cygwin list asking if anyone knows
  how to build the package.

  Step seven - type configure; make.

  Step eight - report all compilation errors to the cygwin list.

  Step nine - report the same errors after waiting a few hours.

  Step ten - send email from another account asking roughly the same
  question.

  Step eleven - wait a couple of days and resubmit the email under
  a different subject.

  Step twelve - make some of the changes that were suggested on the list.

  Step thirteen - goto seven.

cgf

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