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Re: /cygdrive in CVS? Time for 1.5.6 soon.
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:06:41PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> Can anyone duplicate the supposed problem of not being able to use
>> /cygdrive that the person in the cygwin mailing list is complaining
>> about? Supposedly it has been broken in recent snapshots for this
>> guy.
>>
>> If not, would someone be willing to work with this person to track the
>> problem down? I'd like to release 1.5.6 soon and, if this is a real
>> problem, it is not one that we can ignore.
>>
>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-11/msg00891.html
>
>I may be completely off-track here, but looking at the interpretation of
>his /cygdrive/c permissions by Cygwin, and considering that Windows error
>122 is "The data area passed to a system call is too small", could it be
>related to the ntsec problem you reported in
><http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-developers/2003-11/msg00017.html>? Or has
>that been fixed (or worked around) in the snapshots?
I don't see how it could be related or why a change in the snapshot would
cause this to stop working but maybe Corinna or Pierre could comment.
cgf