1.7.1: cvs version built in is unstable

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Wed Apr 7 08:34:00 GMT 2010


On Apr  6 21:06, Charles Wilson wrote:
> On 4/6/2010 1:33 PM, Roe, Kevin L. wrote:
> > Is it possible to change the setting of "POSIX_NO_TRUNC"?
> 
> No. That symbol (accurately) describes the underlying behavior of the C
> runtime library (in this case, the new cygwin1.dll) and is defined in
> /usr/include/sys/features.h.  You really don't want to start lying about
> the behavior of your C library; that way lies madness.

The real solution lies in Cygwin, I fear.  We probably have to add a
tweak to the pathname handling which reverts to good old Win32
compatible filenames (no leading spaces, no trailing dots and spaces)
when the target filesystem is Samba.

I look into it, but maybe not for 1.7.4.


Corinna

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