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Re: unlink() patch (was Cygwin CVS breaks PostgreSQL drop table)
- To: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin-patches at cygwin dot com>
- Subject: Re: unlink() patch (was Cygwin CVS breaks PostgreSQL drop table)
- From: Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 08:19:15 -0400
- Organization: Dot Hill Systems Corp.
Corrina,
On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 01:01:54PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> IMO, that's rather late in the function to handle a nonexistant file.
> I checked in a different solution which handles it more at the
> beginning of _unlink().
Agreed. I almost submitted a patch that dealt with this issue upfront
too, but the 1.122 version also handled this issue late and the 1.123
version seemed to have a yank and put error so I opted for the minimal
perturbation approach.
> Thanks for tracking it down, though.
You're welcome -- thanks for checking in a better fix.
Jason
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