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RE: PATCH: cygwin stat code (again)



>
> "Bart Schaefer" wrote:
> > On May 26,  5:37pm, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > } Subject: Re: PATCH: cygwin stat code (again)
> > }
> > } FWIW, I've been convinced that this change to Cygwin caused many more
> > } problems than it solved so it has been reverted in 1.3.2.
> >
> > Anyone think we should back out the Src/Modules/stat.c changes?
>
> I'd say we remove this for 4.1, or maybe even some later 4.0, when the
> Cygwin changes make this obsolete.

It is already changed back in released cygwin-1.3.2.

  It's not actually breaking anything at
> the moment, is it?
>

No, but the less system-dependent code we have the better (espicially when
this code is not needed).

Of course, somebody may have 1.3.1 (the only version that has this problem)
and try to compile zsh, but the usual policy on cygwin list was "update your
cygwin installation" anyway.

-andrej




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