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Re: findutils support in 1.7.0


On May 16 16:53, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May  9 17:38, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Apr 29 11:19, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > Looks like Microsoft introduced a bug with the new NTFS implementation
> > > in Windows 2000 and only fixed that with the new NTFS implementation in
> > > Vista.  If you're interested in the full table of values, see
> > > http://cygwin.de/foo-values.csv
> > 
> > Just FYI, I reported this behaviour including a simple testcase(TM)
> > into the newsgroup microsoft.public.win32.programmer.kernel but got
> > the reply I should better open a support case:
> > 
> >   http://tinyurl.com/49pgzw
> > 
> > I opened a support case today.  Now I'm just curious if this will
> > get a fix or not :)
> 
> One week later I got the exciting message that the problem can be
> reproduced...

Case closed.  No fix.  The guys at Microsoft responsible for the file
system are of the opinion that the bad timing behaviour is the result
of a natural evolution of the filing system over time, and not actually
a bug.


Corinna

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Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
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