An experimental release of coreutils, 5.94-2, is available to help test the latest snapshots in preparation for cygwin 1.5.20. To use this version, you must have a recent snapshot (20060220 or later) installed, then use the Exp button of setup.exe to select the experimental version of coreutils.
This version uses the improved d_ino member and readdir() improvements that are available in snapshots. I also intentionally changed /bin/pwd to use its readdir fallback code rather than the more efficient getcwd code, so that /bin/pwd becomes a nice efficient test of whether cygwin is reporting accurate inode information in its directory listings. Be aware that coreutils-5.94-1 does not test all of the code paths of cygwin like this experimental 5.94-2 does, so I recommend upgrading coreutils if you plan on testing the latest snapshots to help look for regressions in file listings. Functionally, there should be NO difference in behavior between 5.94-1 and 5.94-2 - if there is, then you have found a cygwin bug and should report it to this list. This includes if the shell builtin 'cd -P' ever disagrees with '/bin/pwd'. -- Eric Blake volunteer cygwin coreutils maintainer -- 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/
