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RE: 1.1.4: Inconsistent i-node numbers
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- Subject: RE: 1.1.4: Inconsistent i-node numbers
- From: "Robert Collins" <robert dot collins at itdomain dot com dot au>
- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:46:17 +1100
- Thread-Index: AcBjE8ZglrPcC1L1TgOgUZLvr+7tyAAACRUw
- Thread-Topic: 1.1.4: Inconsistent i-node numbers
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Sainty [mailto:David.Sainty@optimation.co.nz]
> Sent: Monday, 11 December 2000 12:45 PM
> To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com
> Cc: dave @ dtsp (E-mail)
> Subject: Re: 1.1.4: Inconsistent i-node numbers
>
>
> This also affects 'zsh', which uses its own implementation of
> getcwd().
>
> Perhaps this issue belongs in the FAQ?
>
> Is there any interest in making 'zsh' a standard Cygwin distributed
> application? A patch to 'zsh' would make this problem go
> away, and who
> really wants to use 'bash'? :)
>
> (While I'm on the topic, ispell would be a great addition too :)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dave
>
> > From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
> >
> > This is a long-standing problem in cygwin. Using real
> inode numbers in
> > readdir would be expensive but using hashes for everything would be
> imprecise.
> >
> > I've never heard of a great solution for this, unfortunately.
> >
> > cgf
> >
<SNIP>
>
Dave,
There was a recent thread about becoming a package maintainer - look in
the archives. I'm sure that extra contributions will be welcomed.
However re zsh vs bash... that can become religious :-] - as long as
bash is available I'll be happy..
Rob
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