Hi Bruno,
On 5/1/2024 6:52 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
I did not know about /proc/cygdrive; thanks for teaching us. I guess it can be
assumed that /proc/cygdrive exists, because unlike in Linux, there are no
Docker containers and unlike in FreeBSD, there are no jails?
I don't know anything about Docker containers or jails, but it's my
understanding that /proc/cygdrive always exists.
I'm committing this patch:
2024-05-01 Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org>
readutmp, boot-time: Improve for some Cygwin installations.
Reported by Ken Brown <kbr...@cornell.edu> in
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnulib/2024-05/msg00008.html>.
* lib/boot-time-aux.h (get_windows_boot_time): Use /proc/cygdrive/
instead of /cygdrive/.
diff --git a/lib/boot-time-aux.h b/lib/boot-time-aux.h
index 8b966fe691..a94cdb3f30 100644
--- a/lib/boot-time-aux.h
+++ b/lib/boot-time-aux.h
@@ -306,7 +306,8 @@ get_windows_boot_time (struct timespec *p_boot_time)
process, namely C:\pagefile.sys. */
const char * const boot_touched_file =
#if defined __CYGWIN__ && !defined _WIN32
- "/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys"
+ /* It is more portable to use /proc/cygdrive/c than /cygdrive/c. */
+ "/proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys"
#else
"C:\\pagefile.sys"
#endif
Thanks.
Ken
