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Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.1.0-1
- From: Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>
- To: "cygwin at cygwin dot com" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2020 00:20:33 +0000
- Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] cygwin 3.1.0-1
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- References: <announce.20191216201131.494767-1-corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com> <d982ced4-65ef-0603-758a-ef14b5acb25a@t-online.de> <ab35d3db4e8ecb38d65b4a97b04812bf@smtp-cloud7.xs4all.net>
On 1/13/2020 4:30 PM, Houder wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Dec 2019 10:23:16, Henning wrote:
>> On 16/12/2019 20:11, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:
>>>
>>> * cygwin-3.1.0-1
>>> * cygwin-devel-3.1.0-1
>>> * cygwin-doc-3.1.0-1
>>
>> After cygwin-3.0.7 all attempts to update (to test or normal versions)
>> terminated with errors:
>>
>> Package: 0/Perpetual
>> 0p_000_autorebase.dash exit code -1073741819
>> 0p_update-info-dir.dash exit code -1073741819
> [snip]
>
>> OS: Windows 8.1 Professional 32bit
> [snip]
>
>> setup.log extract:
>>
>>
>> 2019/12/17 09:58:10 Starting cygwin install, version 2.897
>> 2019/12/17 09:58:10 User has backup/restore rights
>> 2019/12/17 09:58:10 Current Directory: U:\usr\pkg\cygwin
>> 2019/12/17 09:58:10 Could not open service McShield for query, start and
>> stop. McAfee may not be installed, or we don't have access.
>> 2019/12/17 09:58:13 source: network install
>> 2019/12/17 09:58:13 root: U:\ system
>
> .. for the record ...
>
> Both 32-bits and 64-bits installations fail if one installs in the root of
> a drive as result of a modification made by Ken Brown on 2019 09 25.
>
> This statement also applies to:
>
> - https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2020-01/msg00111.html
> ( Cygwin 3.1.X Fatal Errors - add_item ("\??\C:", "/", ...) failed, errno 22 )
>
> Note: I am not saying that the modification made by Ken Brown is in error, but
> that "something else" has to be changed as well ...
> (init_cygheap::init_installation_root() in winsup/cygwin/cyheap.cc ?????)
>
> Ken Brown's modification:
>
> - https://cygwin.com/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;f=winsup/cygwin/path.cc;h=283cb372e4e25d1d11123d98e3d14e85b525e48d
> ( Cygwin: normalize_win32_path: improve error checking )
I think I see how to fix this. I'll submit a patch within the next few days.
Ken
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