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Re: MVFS results
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: The Vulgar And Quite Professionally Mean Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 01:35:18 +0100
- Subject: Re: MVFS results
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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:13:43PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>> Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes:
>>> Oh well. Ok, I planned to check this change in and let you then test
>> >from CVS. But since that's a problem for you, here's the patch. The
>>> important part is that Cygwin should now always create symlinks as
>>> shortcuts on MVFS, regardless of the CYGWIN=winsymlink setting. Please
>>> check.
>> Not quite. I've finally got my tree in the state where I could apply
>> this patch. For the record (more documenting it for myself, than
>> anything else), I used setup.exe to get 1.7.0-51 sources, used 'git
>> init && git add . && git commit -m 1.7.0-51' to make it easier to
>> track commits, then ran these commands to grab all CVS changes since
>> that point:
>>
>> $ wget
>> http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2009-q3/msg0003{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}.html
>>
>> $ for f in msg*.html; do sed -n
>> 's,.*\(http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin[^<]*\)<.*,\1, s,&,\&,gp'
>> $f > ${f%.html}.txt; done
>>
>> $ for f in msg0003*; do while read file; do wget -O patch.txt "$file";
>> patch -p2 < patch.txt; done < $f ; git commit -a -m "fold in $f"; done
>
> I always just use the toggle switches on the front panel of my computer.
>
> Much easier.
>
> cgf
I always just bang two rocks together. With a cute fluffy kitten trapped in
between. It doesn't have quite as much computational power, but at least it's
needlessly sadistic and cruel.
Much more satisfying.
cheers,
DaveK