On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:52:23PM -0400, William A. Hoffman wrote: > At 11:49 AM 8/16/2006, Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > >How do you know it is "a small patch"? Have you actually looked at the > >code? I find that unlikely. > > I had not looked at the source, but figured it most likely was not that big > a change. I now have looked at the sources, and minus the makefile changes, > the diff between the upstream 3.80 and 3.81 is about 450 lines of diff. > Although if you removed the command.com changes, and only used sh to launch > stuff, the changes would be much smaller than that. > > I can see why it would not be accepted upstream as is: > > ChangeLog.RedHat: * vpath.c: use cygwin32_win32_to_posix_path_list() in > ChangeLog.RedHat: cygwin.dll library to accept both posix and win32 > paths > > It makes a call to cygwin.dll. > > So, I suppose a new patch would be needed up stream that did not have the > command.com stuff ( I don't think it is being missed). The new patch would > only > put in support for drive letters to work, and I would think that it would be > much > smaller.
Hi Bill, Do you plan on creating a patch to make that would provide the 3.80 functionality? Bob Rossi -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
