Hi, I would like to do what I can to help with this. My reasons are purely selfish; I'm currently having to use Vista and I'd like to get off!
I've seen that there is some activity around this [1], [2]. My immediate issue is using rsync fails due to long path names, so that's my motivation for offering to help. I've downloaded the source and had a look, but it's probably beyond my current level of C experience to do much with it. I'm working on fixing that. I was hoping it would be a case of switching out the type-library being used and altering an adaption layer to happily marshall where required to use the *W versions rather than the *A versions but that was a little naive of me. So, how best to help? Trying out the snapshots and seeing whether they work for me, or something else? Are the changes for long path names happening in a branch which I could look at and get an idea of the changes that are required, to submit patches? I've tried just swapping in later snapshots of the cygwin1.dll, but I get GPFs when running bash at the moment, so I'm keen to know what I'm doing wrong there. Cheers, James [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2006-01/msg01275.html [2] http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2007-12/msg00437.html -- 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/
