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Re: cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino

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CFChristopher Faylor <me@cgf.cx>
Date
Jan 19, 2006, 22:51 UTC
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<20060119225128.GA8702@trixie.casa.cgf.cx>
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<20060119220843.GA3601@steel.home>
On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 11:08:43PM +0100, Alex Riesen wrote:
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>Christopher Faylor, Thu, Jan 19, 2006 19:31:43 +0100:
>>Hmm.  I thought we'd already dispelled the myth that cygwin is
>>unsupported in this very mailing list.  That is an odd impression given
>>the fact that you were complaining about behavior in a version of
>>cygwin which was released on Monday but, apology accepted.
>
>It was my first update since a long time (which BTW broke some programs
>like cp: they missed symbols in cygwin1.dll).

Detailed bug reports are always welcome on the cygwin mailing list: cygwin at cygwin dot com . I should point out that the existence of bugs in a product does not indicate a lack of support of the product, however.

>Maybe it'd be a good idea just to remove the definitions? Or, as
>__INSIDE_CYGWIN__ implies, move them into cygwin internal sources.
>Would be less confusion and no chance of someone defining one of the
>macros and getting a binary-incompatible object?

I sincerely doubt that anyone in this mailing list wants to get into a discussion of cygwin design. If you really want to discuss this, the cygwin mailing list is a much better place for that.

cgf
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Message 15 of 27 in “cygwin-latest: compile errors related to sockaddr_storage, dirent->d_type and dirent->d_ino”
  1. Alex RiesenJan 18, 2006
  2. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  4. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  5. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  6. Linus TorvaldsJan 19, 2006
  7. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsJan 19, 2006
  9. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  10. fsck-objects: support platforms without d_ino in struct dirent.Junio C Hamano, Jan 20, 2006
  11. Christopher FaylorJan 20, 2006
  12. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2006
  13. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  14. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2006
  15. Christopher FaylorJan 19, 2006
  16. Petr BaudisJan 19, 2006
  17. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2006
  18. Petr BaudisJan 19, 2006
  19. Alex RiesenJan 19, 2006
  20. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2006
  21. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2006
  22. DT_UNKNOWN: do not fully trust existence of DT_UNKNOWNJunio C Hamano, Jan 20, 2006
  23. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2006
  24. Junio C HamanoJan 20, 2006
  25. Alex RiesenJan 20, 2006
  26. Junio C HamanoJan 21, 2006
  27. Alex RiesenJan 23, 2006

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