[Fwd: [21.1] work around cygwin readlink bug]

Charles S. Wilson cwilson@ece.gatech.edu
Mon Dec 18 16:21:00 GMT 2000


Saw this message on the xemacs-nt mailing list.  Is this a known bug in
cygwin-1.1.6 ?

--Chuck


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [21.1] work around cygwin readlink bug
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 16:54:05 +0000
From: Andy Piper <andyp@bea.com>
To: xemacs-patches@xemacs.org
CC: xemacs-nt@xemacs.org

Cygwin 1.1.6 seems to have introduced a bug in readlink which stop
runemacs 
working correctly. This patch works around it by forcing a trailing 0
after 
.exe.

andy

2000-12-18  Andy Piper  <andy@xemacs.org>

	* runemacs.c (WinMain): force a trailing 0 on the filename.
run.patch
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Dr Andy Piper
Principal Consultant, BEA Systems Ltd

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