Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

Charles Wilson cygwin@cwilson.fastmail.fm
Tue Apr 25 06:05:00 GMT 2006


Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> - Reintroducing the dirent member d_ino.  1.5.20 tries hard to return a
>   useful d_ino value, which is supposed to be also the same as st_ino as
>   returned by stat(2) in all cases, regardless of the obstacles to do
>   this on Windows.  Do you have strange file systems like HPFS or ClearCase?

I'll take a look at this w.r.t clearcase.  How exactly should I test -- 
what am I looking for?  Just a little app that compares dirent.d_ino and 
  stat.st_ino for a specified file on the strange filesystem?

Do I only care about the lower 32 bits, or all 64?

--Chuck

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