[1.7] bugs in faccessat

Christopher Faylor cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please@cygwin.com
Tue Sep 8 20:16:00 GMT 2009


On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 09:16:57PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Sep  7 16:05, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 03, 2009 at 11:04:38PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >Thanks for the patches Eric, but, here's a problem.  We still have no
>> >copyright assignment in place from you.  The fcntl patch is barely
>> >trivial, but the faccessat patch certainly isn't anymore.  Would it
>> >be a big problem for you to send the filled out copyright assignemnt form
>> >from http://cygwin.com/assign.txt to Red Hat ASAP?  With any luck it
>> >will have arrived and will be signed before I'm back from vacation.
>> 
>> I don't understand why this isn't considered trivial but a basically
>> equivalent change to fix other errnos is:
>> 
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2009-09/msg00178.html
>
>It's 2 vs. 30 lines of changes.  That's hardly equivalent.

But each of those changes were obvious and each could have been
contributed separately, one for every function.  That would have
made them trivial.

cgf



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