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Achim Gratz wrote: > Tony Cook writes: >> 1.15 cygwin build issue, test failure > > Sorry to piggy-back on here, but I didn't find where this was discussed > on the list (if it was). > > From the date of the commit I assume that 636efde is (at least in part) > what's meant here. I suggest that the fix should be cherry-picked to > the 5.22.1 branch. > > To the fix itself, using df will eventually fail on some systems even > with the "-a" switch since you can't assume that a C: drive exists. A > more appropriate way to obtain the cygdrive prefix is to use > > readlink "/proc/cygdrive" > > or `readlink -f /proc/cygdrive` or maybe even `cygpath -u C:` (the > latter works even if the drive in question doesn't exist and presumably > does so even on older versions of Cygwin that didn't have the /proc > pseudo-fs). Shellling out is evil perf wise, cyg perl really needs to learn how to use cyg specific XS or C funcs.Thread Previous | Thread Next