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Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories


On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 05:22:06PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On May 17 10:56, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 12:26:55PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> >On May 17 12:56, Fedin Pavel wrote:
>> >>  Hello!
>> >>  
>> >> > The reason for this behaviour has been outlined a couple of times on
>> >> > this list.  See http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2013-01/msg00173.html,
>> >> > for instance.
>> >> 
>> >>  Heh...
>> >>  So, complete emulation would cost a major performance drop, right ?
>> >>  Well... Can there be any setting which enables these checks ? At least we have one use case...
>> >
>> >Not without lots of new code.
>> 
>> So, maybe next Thursday?
>
>I would love to, but unfortunately I have to brush my cat on Thursday.
>And I don't even have a cat.

You're welcome to brush mine in that case.  I don't have one either.

So it sounds like we may have a feline inavailability deadlock.

cgf

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