Re: Problems with autoconf-2.52 testsuite using current CVS Cygwin

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Charles Wilson wrote:


> 
> It looks like there's a problem with 'mkdir -p' in cygwin-CVS.  I'll dig 
> around and see what's changed in there recently...unless anybody already 
> knows offhand?


Well, by process of elimination, it seems that the problem first appears 
between the 20010707 and 20010710 snapshots.  What problem?  This one:

$ mkdir -p a/b/c/d
$ ls -lF a/b/c
d--------- user group date d/
(Note that 'ls -lFd a' indicates that the expected permissions are set 
on 'a' -- it's just the children directories that don't have the correct 
  perms)

On cygwin-1.3.2 and snapshots prior to 20010709, the correct result:
$ mkdir -p a/b/c/d
$ ls -lF a/b/c
drwxrwxr-x user group date d/

Between 20010707 and 20010710, the following patches were committed to 
CVS ( my bet is that the security.cc change is causing the problem --did 
I mention that I'm on NTFS under W2K? )  Anyway, more details to follow...

Changes by:	corinna@sources.redhat.com	2001-07-09 02:02:42
Modified files:
	winsup/cygwin  : ChangeLog security.cc
Log message:
	* security.cc (alloc_sd): Don't set inheritance attribute for
	permissions given to directories.


Changes by:	corinna@sources.redhat.com	2001-07-09 02:05:19
Modified files:
	winsup/cygwin  : ChangeLog uinfo.cc
Log message:
	* uinfo.cc (internal_getlogin): Add pointer check.


Changes by:	duda@sources.redhat.com	2001-07-09 07:44:27
Modified files:
	cinstall       : ChangeLog choose.cc
Log message:
	* choose.cc: Use system foreground color for text output.


Changes by:	corinna@sources.redhat.com	2001-07-10 14:04:17
Modified files:
	winsup/cygwin  : ChangeLog mmap.cc
Log message:
	* mmap.cc (fhandler_disk_file::mmap): Try to open file mappings
	by a unified name when running under 9x/ME. If that failes, create
	the file mapping using the unified name.

--Chuck