== Problem == On Cygwin[1], GNU updatedb tries to index all mapped network drives.[2] This happens because getmntent() returns the wrong fstype.[3] Someone mailed a patch[4] which would fix this, and someone replied[5] it was checked into CVS, but it seems from the cvs log[6] that the patch accidentally never got checked in. == Proposed solution == * Check the patch in. * The Cygwin volunteers work hard. I am sure they get more email than is humanly possible to handle without making the occasional mistake. Bugzilla will help them keep better track of the numerous patches that come in. So, I propose you edit http://cygwin.com/contrib.html and http://www.cygwin.com/lists.html. Remove the statements saying patches should go to cygwin-patches. Instead, write that patches should go to bugzilla. == Notes == I am taking the liberty of assigning this directly to cgf because it doesn't need to be more public. cgf, I hope you aren't offended. ^ [1]. The problem still occurs for me on what uname says is CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-05-26 20:37 i686. ^ [2]. as I wrote at http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23742#discussion ^ [3]. a quote from http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin/14500/focus=14591 (posted in 2002) ^ [4]. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.patches/3244 ^ [5]. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.cygwin.patches/3244/focus=3285 ^ [6]. http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/winsup/cygwin/path.cc? cvsroot=src
The patch was checked in on 2007/05/15, revision 1.435 to path.cc and 1.98 to path.h. Also: The procedure mentioned for submitting patches is exactly as we want it. We don't want random users submitting bugzilla reports and assigning them to people they think are appropriate.
Fix was already applied.
> The patch was checked in on 2007/05/15, revision 1.435 to > path.cc and 1.98 to path.h. My mistake. I thought you forgot to check the patch in, but I now see that you checked it in and that the code was later moved to mount.cc. > Also: The procedure mentioned for submitting patches is > exactly as we want it. > > We don't want random users submitting bugzilla reports and > assigning them to people they think are appropriate. I thought this was an embarrassing bug. I don't like to embarrass people on public mailing lists. I didn't know if the default bugzilla component assignee was a list; so I assigned the bug directly to you. Again: I was mistaken. Cheers, --j
Marking as verified invalid.