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On Fri, Dec 04, 2015 at 03:01:54PM -0500, bulk88 wrote: > 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. This code is checking that the results of the cygwin specific XS functions are sane. TonyThread Previous | Thread Next