On 3 September 2010 08:37, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > I still don't like the final workaround, which is, to set the Win32 CWD > to the Cygwin CWD. It would be nice if we could revert that change to > the pre-1.7.6 behaviour in a Vista-friendly way. If you ever find out > how to make sure that the new handle in the PEB's user parameter block > is used even on Vista and later, pray tell me.
I haven't got the magic bullet of course, but since we do have a way to make Win32-using programs work with just a relink, how about this transition scheme: - Add the previously suggested CYGWIN option for syncing the Win32 working directory, with two settings: on and off. Default to on for the moment. That would allow people like Daniel Colascione to switch it off if they don't care about the resulting failures in cygutils and elsewhere. - Implement the -lsynccwd scheme. - Notify maintainers about the rebuild that's necessary if their packages use Win32 APIs. Rebuild cygutils, git, and tcltk as soon as possible. - In a few months, switch the default to not sync, and hence allow working directories to be deleted., and which point. Affected programs that haven't been rebuilt could still be made to work by switching the option back on. Andy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
