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Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 May 2013 13:48:57 -0400
- Subject: Re: BUG: Ability to access nonexistent directories
- References: <000201ce52c4$891b04c0$9b510e40$%fedin at samsung dot com> <20130517083612 dot GE21752 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <000d01ce52dc$74e54bb0$5eafe310$%fedin at samsung dot com> <20130517102655 dot GG21752 at calimero dot vinschen dot de> <20130517145612 dot GC7087 at ednor dot casa dot cgf dot cx> <20130517152206 dot GL21752 at calimero dot vinschen dot de>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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