* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:58:16PM CET: > Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de> writes: > > > here are two more patches for w32. [...] > > OK to apply? > > Bah - I posted and committed a similar patch before I read this.
No worries, your patch was better anyway. > > +# If making a directory and moving files from there to . succeeds, we > > +# are probably on cygwin. > > Not just cygwin, but windows in general. And not just moving files into a > read- > only directory, but deleting files from there as well. Isn't it scary that > Windows thinks everyone deserves root-like privileges? Yep. Note that somehow the MSYS runtime seemed to avoid this trap, though. > > On MinGW, substitution of CR and 0xFF fails. > > > > * tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters): > > MinGW awk cannot handle 0xFF, and on MinGW, the test does the > > wrong thing for CR. > > I can't speak for this one (I avoid mingw as much as possible, only cross- > compiling there), but it looks reasonable. Please apply. Done, thanks! Cheers, Ralf
