Grep says file exists and then doesn't "grep" it

[Randall R Schulz]

Chris,

At 17:37 2002-12-19, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 03:47:27PM -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> >Sorry...I didn't mean to embarrass you.  I was hoping for something a
> >little more juicy, I guess--it's been a slow soggy shut-in sort of day
> >(and week) out here...  Rain, rain and more rain.  Then it rains.
>
>...
>
>The only thing that I don't understand is why rebuilding grep supposedly 
>worked.  I thought that maybe grep had a test for "can I open directories" 
>but it doesn't.

Difference in stack frame layout or global variable orderings produced 
between the cross-compiler you use and the Cygwin-hosted compiler that Mark 
used? Some difference in the precise details of the two compilers' 
configurations?


>I'm almost tempted enough to think about rebuilding grep on windows 95 but...
>
>Nah.
>
>cgf


Randall Schulz 


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