Hi Ken, > It turns out that this was a regression in 3.5.3 and was already > reported (in a slightly different form) in > > https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-April/255812.html > > and fixed for 3.5.4.
Thanks for the investigations! > > Do you have a workaround? In Gnulib we wish to have a way to access this > > file, > > that works on all versions of Cygwin. > > 3.5.3 is the only version that's bad. The regression was apparently caused by commit c1cf14a871528d1adba88a0128813b58d52ba926 on the cygwin-3_5-branch. Therefore the affected versions are 3.5.2 and 3.5.3. > I can't think of a workaround I think I'll just make the boot time function skip that file if it appears to be a directory. Bruno -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
