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Re: MSYS mode (continue)
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2013 11:16:32 +0200
- Subject: Re: MSYS mode (continue)
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On Jul 4 13:09, Alexey Pavlov wrote:
> 2013-06-18 Alexey Pavlov
>
> * mount.cc: Allow using a shortened version of mount points in /etc/fstab
> * utsname.h: Increase sysname fiels size.
> * uname.cc: Allow changing OS name by MSYSTEM environment variable.
> [...SNIP...]
Can we please move patch submissions to the cygwin-patches mailing list?
Thank you.
> Index: cygwin/include/sys/utsname.h
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygwin/include/sys/utsname.h,v
> retrieving revision 1.3
> diff -u -p -r1.3 utsname.h
> --- cygwin/include/sys/utsname.h 21 Jan 2013 04:38:31 -0000 1.3
> +++ cygwin/include/sys/utsname.h 18 Jun 2013 11:39:27 -0000
> @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ extern "C" {
>
> struct utsname
> {
> - char sysname[20];
> + char sysname[21];
We can't do that. struct utsname is a publically facing structure.
If you change the size, you're breaking compatibility with existing
applications.
You should better drop some character from the string you want to enter
here.
Corinna
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