Re: patch to allow touch to work on HPFS (and others, maybe??)

2005-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen redhat.com> writes: > Huh? It reports "NTFS" as filesystem? Now, *that's* weird. Especially > since none of the usual NTFS attributes are set. I was surprised, too. > > Anyway, can you please test on both drives how they behave if utime > uses FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES vs. GENER

Re: patch to allow touch to work on HPFS (and others, maybe??)

2005-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 10 15:10, Eric Blake wrote: > Corinna Vinschen redhat.com> writes: > > > > Hey, why do you give up so quickly? If it's not the one way, it might > > be another one. For us unknowing folks which have no OS/2 box with > > HPFS to mount, would you mind to run the below application on your N

Re: patch to allow touch to work on HPFS (and others, maybe??)

2005-02-10 Thread Eric Blake
Corinna Vinschen redhat.com> writes: > > Hey, why do you give up so quickly? If it's not the one way, it might > be another one. For us unknowing folks which have no OS/2 box with > HPFS to mount, would you mind to run the below application on your NT > box and paste the output into the reply?

Re: patch to allow touch to work on HPFS (and others, maybe??)

2005-02-10 Thread Mark Paulus
That looks like it should do the trick. I just ran this on a samba mounted FS, and FILE_PERSISTENT_ACLS is true, and it does support the touch using FILE_WRITE_ATTRIBUTES. I have asked Andrew DeFaria to compile/run your test program on his Clearcase volume, to see if it follows the same trend. I

Re: patch to allow touch to work on HPFS (and others, maybe??)

2005-02-10 Thread Mark Paulus
I would also like to send this to Andrew DeFaria, since he seems to have access to a ClearCase volume he was having problems with. Andrew, could you compile and run the program below against your Clearcase volume, and either return the results to cygwin-patches@cygwin.com, or to me, and I'll po

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2005-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
The subject says it all. Patch away, Ernie! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc.

Re: patch to allow touch to work on HPFS (and others, maybe??)

2005-02-10 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Feb 9 10:27, Mark Paulus wrote: > I'm not exactly giving up. It's just that at this point it looks like > the fix will not be trivial, and since my company will not endorse > a Waiver, I'm limited in the scope of fixes I can provide. However, > I am more than willing to provide any testing/de