From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 36405@debbugs.gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Subject: bug#36405: 26.2.90; O_PATH problem on some versions of Cygwin
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 09:25:02 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83k1d6i5vl.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d8ae5b11-73cf-74c0-6f06-a772eccfa2aa@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:47:27 -0700)
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2019 13:47:27 -0700
> Cc: 36405-done@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Thanks, but that patch intrudes on the mainline code a bit. It's simpler
> to just disable O_PATH on Cygwin until the old Cygwin versions die out.
IMO, that's too drastic. Cygwin 3 is quite new, AFAIK, so it will be
years and years before the old versions die out; no one will remember
this bit by then.
What problems did you see/envision on other platforms with the
original patch?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-28 6:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-27 19:28 bug#36405: 26.2.90; O_PATH problem on some versions of Cygwin Ken Brown
2019-06-27 20:47 ` Paul Eggert
2019-06-28 6:25 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-06-29 6:26 ` Paul Eggert
2019-06-29 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-29 18:03 ` Ken Brown
2019-06-29 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-06-28 17:57 ` Ken Brown
2019-06-29 6:20 ` Paul Eggert
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