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cygwin, compat.c/zgetdir()
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- From: Matt Armstrong <mattdav+matt@xxxxxxxx>
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- Subject: cygwin, compat.c/zgetdir()
- Date: 23 Jan 1999 11:05:12 -0800
Currently zgetdir() does a lot of fiddling with
stat()/opendir()/inodes and devices. Is there any reason why it
doesn't use the getcwd() function when present on a platform?
Under Cygnus' cygwin, the assumptions about the file system made by
zgetdir() break down. While in the //g directory (which is really a
root directory of the g drive), cygwin lets you do a chdir("..") and
puts you into /. This breaks zgetdir(). There is also a bug in
cygwin that'll give a different inode for /blah/foo/. and /blah/foo,
which also breaks zgetdir(), though I've sent a fix to cygnus for
that.
Anyway, under cygwin its best for zgetdir() to call getcwd(). I'm
wondering if the best fix is to put that code in an #ifdef HAVE_GETCWD
or an #ifdef __CYGWIN__.
After I use zsh under cygwin for a while, I'll be sending a patch to
the list including this and a few other tweaks.
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