On Feb 24 16:16, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Feb 24 13:26, Cristi wrote: > > Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin <at> cygwin.com> writes: > > > > > > > > On Feb 18 14:07, Brian Holley wrote: > > > > Under Win8.1, cygwin64 reports: > > > > > > > > 1 [main] scp 4648 find_fast_cwd: WARNING: Couldn't compute > > > > FAST_CWD pointer. > > > > > > > > and asks for this to be reported. > > > > > > Are you using an older Cygwin version by any chance? I'm using Windows > > > 8.1 daily and I haven't seen this message for a long time. The patch to > > > avoid the message is from when 8.1 has gone Beta, as far as I remember. > > > > > > Corinna > > > > > > > I'm getting the same error (warning) on Windows 2008 and I still didn't > > find > > a way to avoid it. I'm sure I'm using the last version of Cygwin64. Maybe I > > should use an older version? Same install is working perfectly on Windows > > 2003 and Windows 7. > > Sorry, but I can't reproduce this. I've tested on a fully updated 2008 > 64 bit machine, with Cygwin 1.7.28, in 32 and 64 bit, and there's no > such message for me. > > This is one of those problems which gets apparently introduced by some > hotfix which is not part of the normal update procedure, and I can't > change this code unless I can reproduce the problem. > > If somebody can reproduce this on the existing Windows versions, and > this somebody feels not too repelled by plunging into assembler > debugging ntdll.dll, mainly the function RtlGetCurrentDirectory_U and > a subsequently called noname function, and compares what happens with > the Cygwin function find_fast_cwd_pointer() in path.cc, please feel > free to submit patches.
Alternatively, if somebody finds out *what* introduces this problem, so I can try to install this as well to reproduce the problem, I'd be grateful as well. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat
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