Re: Call for testing Cygwin snapshot

[ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)]

> > Another set of tests is to use the experimental coreutils-5.94-5.
> > Doing/bin/pwd inside a directory on the strange filesystem stress tests
> > d_ino (I already know that on ClearCase (MVFS), /bin/pwd fails inside of
> > versioned directories, such as ccase/foo@@/main/, since ClearCase refuses
> > to list foo@@ in a readdir of ccase, but that is not cygwin's bug).  And
> [...]
> 
> I tried /bin/pwd and pwd in a versioned directory 
> (.../business@@/main/...) and it works. Do you mean that it doesn't work 
> with the current snapshot or with the current stable version? Which test 
> exactly fails?

If you are using 5.94-5, then you are necessarily using a snapshot, and
/bin/pwd would fail inside the versioned directory because I compiled it
to use readdir() instead of getcwd(), and clearcase readdir() intentionally
fails to list buisiness@@ when listing its parent directory.  But coreutils
5.94-1 (and the eventual 5.94-6) stick with getcwd(), so that you should
have no problems from inside a Clearcase versioned directory.  And just
to be sure, I will repeat my tests when I am at work today and have
access to a clearcase drive, in case my claims about /bin/pwd were
not quite accurate after all.

-- 
Eric Blake
volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer

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