Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Public Cygwin 1.7 test starts today

[Ken Brown <kbrown at cornell dot edu>]

On 12/10/2008 3:34 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> At the end of this mail you will find a more or less complete list of
> changes from 1.5.x to 1.7.x.

I think you forgot to mention the change to st_nlink [1], which will 
affect some applications.  For example, the kpathsea search library for 
texlive needs to be patched to accommodate the change.  (I've sent the 
patch to the tlbuild list in case anyone is interested.)  This might 
also apply to cygwin's tetex package, but I haven't tested it.

One other thing I've noticed, which I think is unrelated, is that there 
is a glitch in directory listing in emacs under cygwin 1.7:  If you try 
to list a directory with control-x d, very often the directory listing 
makes it look like the directory is empty when it isn't.  Typing "g" (to 
ask emacs to redisplay the directory) usually results in a correct 
listing.  I initially thought this might also be related to st_nlink, 
but I think emacs simply calls "ls -al" to do the listing, so there's 
probably no connection.  I'm wondering if it might be related to 
whatever changes were made to cygwin so that directory listings are 
faster (as reported in [2]).

This glitch occurs in emacs 22.3, which I built myself.  I haven't 
tested it in the official cygwin release of emacs (which I don't have 
installed), since my build works fine in cygwin 1.5.

Ken

[1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2008-04/msg00110.html
[2] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-12/msg00246.html


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