On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Ken Brown wrote: > One other thing I've noticed, which I think is unrelated, is that there is a > glitch in directory listing in emacs under cygwin 1.7: If you try to list a > directory with control-x d, very often the directory listing makes it look > like the directory is empty when it isn't. Typing "g" (to ask emacs to > redisplay the directory) usually results in a correct listing. I initially > thought this might also be related to st_nlink, but I think emacs simply > calls "ls -al" to do the listing, so there's probably no connection. I'm > wondering if it might be related to whatever changes were made to cygwin so > that directory listings are faster (as reported in [2]). > [2] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-12/msg00246.html
With no knowledge of cygwin's internals, I'd much sooner guess the changes to the pipe code... ~Matt -- 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/
