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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today


On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
> One other thing I've noticed, which I think is unrelated, is that there is a
> glitch in directory listing in emacs under cygwin 1.7:  If you try to list a
> directory with control-x d, very often the directory listing makes it look
> like the directory is empty when it isn't.  Typing "g" (to ask emacs to
> redisplay the directory) usually results in a correct listing.  I initially
> thought this might also be related to st_nlink, but I think emacs simply
> calls "ls -al" to do the listing, so there's probably no connection.  I'm
> wondering if it might be related to whatever changes were made to cygwin so
> that directory listings are faster (as reported in [2]).
> [2] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-12/msg00246.html

With no knowledge of cygwin's internals, I'd much sooner guess the
changes to the pipe code...

~Matt

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