From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3645 invoked by alias); 22 Mar 2011 11:00:51 -0000 Received: (qmail 3619 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Mar 2011 11:00:50 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_ENVFROM_END_DIGIT,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RFC_ABUSE_POST,TW_FN X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-qy0-f176.google.com (HELO mail-qy0-f176.google.com) (209.85.216.176) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 11:00:45 +0000 Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so6240311qyk.0 for ; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:00:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.79.196 with SMTP id q4mr4571187qck.132.1300791631271; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.229.97.206 with HTTP; Tue, 22 Mar 2011 04:00:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:22:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: RFC: Issue about assumption of DOSish file-system for cygwin From: Kai Tietz To: GCC Patches , gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Binutils Cc: Dave Korn Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-03/txt/msg00991.txt.bz2 Hello, I noticed this issue while working on those directory-separator thing for DOSish file-systems, and somehow this looks odd to me. For some reason the filenames.h header assumes for cygwin DOSish file-system, but in fact cygwin uses POSIXish file-system. I assume this definition was caused by the times cygwin compiler had -mno-cygwin option, but well I think we should correct this by following patch. Dave, might it be that I am overlooking here something obvious, why cygwin should assume DOSish filesystem? Regards, Kai Index: filenames.h =================================================================== --- filenames.h (revision 171281) +++ filenames.h (working copy) @@ -30,7 +30,8 @@ extern "C" { #endif -#if defined(__MSDOS__) || defined(_WIN32) || defined(__OS2__) || defined (__CYGWIN__) +#if (defined(__MSDOS__) || defined(_WIN32) || defined(__OS2__)) \ + && !defined (__CYGWIN__) # ifndef HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM # define HAVE_DOS_BASED_FILE_SYSTEM 1 # endif