Re: popen() fails after 256 successful calls

Eric Lilja wrote: Hello, I have two directories, both with ~4k files in them. For each directory I needed to calculate a SHA1 checksum on each file and store them in a table and then do some comparisons. I wrote a C++ program for this but I noticed popen() (which I use to invoke sha1sum.exe to

Slow shell script execution on Cygwin

Hi everybody, [cc:ing libtool as I started a thread about Libtool execution speed there] One thing that has annoyed me for a while is that large/complex shell scripts with a lot of forking, like configure scripts or Libtool, run quite slowly on Cygwin. I know that you have to do a lot of trickery

Re: cygwin coreutils-5.3.0-4 rm change breaks Libtool

Hi again, Eric Blake wrote: [cc'ing bug-libtool] Thanks. Ralf and other Libtool people: I apologize for not cc:ing you in the first place, I should have done that. the change in rm semantics, implicit .exe handling, in coreutils-5.3.0-4 breaks Libtool (1.5.10, and some later versions). More speci

coreutils-5.3.0-4 rm change breaks Libtool

Hi everybody, the change in rm semantics, implicit .exe handling, in coreutils-5.3.0-4 breaks Libtool (1.5.10, and some later versions). More specifically, when Libtool is used to link an executable which requires a wrapper script to handle uninstalled libraries, the corresponding wrapper .exe