Cygwin and crosstool! (vmlinux.lds.asm problem with 2.6.12.5 case-insensitive build patch from crosstool)
Dave Korn
dave.korn@artimi.com
Fri Aug 26 17:06:00 GMT 2005
----Original Message----
>From: Dan Kegel
>Sent: 26 August 2005 17:33
> Dave Korn wrote:
>>> Ah. Deleting the files would work, too :-)
>>
>> "To a bofh with an rm-rf, every problem looks like a superfluous file"
>> :)
>
> That's me! :-) I gotta admit, when I saw that episode of BOFH
> the first time back in the early 90's, I ROTFL.
Wow, I didn't know that was a real episode, I thought I just made it up.
Guess it's a fairly easy idiom to impersonate.... :)
>> we're worried about, but I still reckon that a patch to provide
>> posix-flag mount points might be a useful kind of 'managed mount lite'
>> feature.
>
> Oh. You're proposing a patch to cygwin to add
> a new mount option? Sounds like a cool idea.
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1997-05/msg00404.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cygwin@cygwin.com/msg19268.html
Yeh, I came across those threads. That one from '97 and one more recent
one are about all I could find on the subject.
> Corinna objects to it, though; she said on 22 Jul 2004 22:46:44 in
> a message in thread "Re: Slight problem with case sensitivity on managed
> mounts with C VS-1.1" archived at
> http://www.newsarch.com/archive/mailinglist/cygwin/msg09026.html :
I can't get that address to resolve!
>The
> problem in using FILE_FLAG_POSIX_SEMANTICS is this: Any other
> >application which doesn't use that flag might get seriously confused
> >by having two files which only differ in case.
>
> But maybe she'd be ok with it as an extra mount flag.
I hope so; that way it's strictly isolated from anyone who doesn't want it
in use. Making it a property of a mountpoint (rather than e.g. a CYGWIN
environment variable option) should make it keep itself to self-contained
dir subtrees, rather than allowing chaotically-named files to scatter across
the whole fs.
> But before you do: what *is* the overhead of managed mode mounts?
No idea, but I'm sufficiently off-put by those mangled names that I don't
like it!
cheers,
DaveK
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