Re: bug#12820: gnulib testsuite failure in latest master

2012-11-07 Thread Paul Eggert
Ouch, I read your strace output incorrectly: it was napping for 20 ms, not 2 s. Still, there should be no need to nap for that long; 1 ms should suffice on your platform. I installed the following patch to cause the test to take shorter naps. This might affect your original problem, and might no

Re: [PATCH] fcntl-h: default O_SEARCH, O_EXEC to O_PATH if available

2012-11-07 Thread Jim Meyering
Paul Eggert wrote: > On 11/05/2012 02:02 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > >> Do we really want the ability to open a symlink as an fd >> when using O_EXEC permissions, instead of following the >> symlink into the file that it normally points to? > > Opening the symlink with open ("symlink", O_EXEC) should

Re: canonicalize_file_name does not support MS-Windows style file names

2012-11-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi Eli, Eli Zaretskii writes: >> Eli, I see that Bruno asked for a set of Windows-syntax filenames to >> extend the unit test. Would you be willing to work on that? > > I can come up with file names that could be used to test the code, if > this will help, but I won't have resources to make a co

Re: canonicalize_file_name does not support MS-Windows style file names

2012-11-07 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 07:30:03 -0800 > From: Paul Eggert > CC: Eli Zaretskii , bug-gnulib@gnu.org, br...@clisp.org > > I suggest that if we don't hear from [Bruno] soon, that we apply the > patch to Gnulib. Thank you, I'd appreciate that.

Re: canonicalize_file_name does not support MS-Windows style file names

2012-11-07 Thread Eli Zaretskii
> From: Mark H Weaver > Cc: br...@clisp.org, bug-gnulib@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2012 08:07:04 -0500 > > Guile needs Eli's patch in order build under mingw + msys, which is > important for several cross-platform programs that depend on libguile. > We hope to release Guile 2.0.7 in the week of

Re: canonicalize_file_name does not support MS-Windows style file names

2012-11-07 Thread Paul Eggert
We've mostly been relying on Bruno to review patches like that, as he has the expertise and the desire to support Windows. Unfortunately Bruno has been busy lately. I suggest that if we don't hear from him soon, that we apply the patch to Gnulib. Guile can do that now to its copy of lib/canonical

Re: canonicalize_file_name does not support MS-Windows style file names

2012-11-07 Thread Mark H Weaver
Hi, Guile needs Eli's patch in order build under mingw + msys, which is important for several cross-platform programs that depend on libguile. We hope to release Guile 2.0.7 in the week of Nov 26, so it would be great if this patch could be integrated soon. Eli, I see that Bruno asked for a set o