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Re: experimental coreutils-5.94-4
- From: ericblake at comcast dot net (Eric Blake)
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 16:18:31 +0000
- Subject: Re: experimental coreutils-5.94-4
> On Feb 28 07:30, Eric Blake wrote:
> > This version fixes the coreutils bug in pwd when called from /, or from
> > anywhere in the // hierarchy. [...]
>
> What happened to the simple, but *always* working idea to call getcwd in
> pwd to evaluate the current working directory? The new implementation
> looks a bit maniac.
Ergo, this is an *experimental* release! I _purposefully_
crippled the working getcwd implementation to give the
readdir fallback code more exposure (and to root out
bugs in the coreutils fallback code). When cygwin 1.5.20
comes out, I will remove the cripple, and /bin/pwd will
once again be a super-efficient call to getcwd.
--
Eric Blake
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