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RE: 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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