From: Christopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 05:20:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] "sleep 1" sleeps too little on cygwin
Message-ID: <20060119052043.GB8121@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7vmzhtqakl.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 05:18:50PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> this is probable unsafe too: not all systems export inodes
>> (the recent cygwin breakage comes to mind).
>
>Hmph.  I thought that breakage was about struct dirent, not what
>we read from struct stat; d_ino is XSI extension so that may
>have been the reason cygwin folks removed it, but st_ino is in
>BASE --- did they remove that as well?

No, we didn't.  We (i.e., I) removed d_ino in cygwin because it couldn't
be reliably calculated without slowing things down.  st_ino will always
be there.

cgf