[Python-3000] Py3k_struni additional test failures under cygwin
Joe Smith
unknown_kev_cat at hotmail.com
Tue Jul 31 21:21:50 CEST 2007
"Joe Smith" <unknown_kev_cat at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:f8nvbm$bcs$1 at sea.gmane.org...
>
> Exactly the issue.
> I see the problem here is cygwin's partial POSIX complience. However,
> Windows NT had a design goal of allowing a complient implementation
> of POSIX to be implmented in a subsystem (along with userespace
> utilities).
>
> So it should be possible to get unlink() to work as like a POSIX unlink
> using raw NT kernel calls.
> Since Cygwin has dropped support for pre-NT systems, swithing to that
> seems
> to be the correct thing to do.
>
> I'll discuss this with the cygwin team.
>
> Regardless, the exact same issue will likely exist on the windows side.
> It seems likely that a fix for the Windows side may fix the cygwin issue.
>
Looks like the fix needed for cygwin's unlink was checked in two days ago.
The problem should automatically disappear in the next cygwin release.
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