1.5.5.1 st_ctime and st_mtime is not updated for functions.

Hi all, I ran PCTS on cygwin 1.5.5.1 and found some problem. According to standard document of posix conformance following function need to update the st_ctime and st_mtime fields of the underlying file. These functions are not doing so. Is there any specific reason for that? Is it impl

performance degradation because of sparse file handling in cygwin

Hi, I have some questions about handling of sparse file in cygwin 1.5.5 onwards. cygwin makes a file as a sparse if there is a write request beyond 128 KB from file end. I am not sure whether it is a heuristic or some statistical fact governs the use of 128 KB. Please clarify. The code of fhandl

ls could not list all files

Dear all, I am facing strange problem. I have a directory test1 in which there are number of files. I am running following command and see some problem here. $ ls test1/* | wc 27452745 32724 So total number of charcter if all filename is written on command line is 32724. Now I create

symboilc link does not expand if followed by /..

Hi all, I found a problem with symbolic link expansion in cygwin. Symbolic link does not expand properly if it is followed by /.. . To see it at your place please do the following. cd /tmp mkdir dir1 mkdir dir2 touch dir1/1.c cd dir2 ln -s ../dir1 symlink if we do ls symlink it gives 1.c as ex

cygcheck does not work if the mount point is mounted with -X option

Hi, I had mounted my /usr/bin by using mount -X option, which says 'treat all files under mount point as cygwin executable'. This I did because "ls" command was not able to process command line arguments whose length exceeds certain limit. Refer http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2004-05/msg00842

login-1.10-10 : throwing error in eventviewer

Hello Cygwin Team, We are having two user in Windows 2003 environment : Administrator and tioadmin. Cygwin is installed using user Administrator. When we are trying to execute command "login -p tioadmin" from cygwin bash shell, it logs following error in event viewer of system : unable to obtain 

Re: login-1.10-10 : throwing error in eventviewer

other way to remove it without using sshd services. Error message :unable to obtain user info for tioadmin (tried domain controller MZ-FW-DC-004 and localhost) Thanks Vinay On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Vinay Kumar wrote: > > Hello Cygwin Team, > > We are having two user in Wi