On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 01:43:11PM -0800, Paul Eggert wrote: >Jim Meyering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Do any of you know of reasonably modern systems >> that do *not* support fchdir? > >It's broken in Cygwin, at least for 1.3.6-6. See: > >http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg00963.html
Quoting a year-old message hardly qualifies as "broken on cygwin". >> I've heard that on at least SunOS4 it fails for file systems >> on which some type of accounting is enabled. > >Yes, it fails if auditing is enabled. Similarly for IRIX 5.3 >(IRIX and SunOS share some code in this area, if I recall.) >I vaguely recall it has other NFS-related problems. > >> But SunOS4 is not exactly modern. >> >> Also, it looks like SCO Xenix lacks the function altogether, >> but that's hardly modern either. > >It's also missing from Ultrix and AIX 3.2.5. > >None of these systems are exactly spring chickens, except for Cygwin. and the version of cygwin that you are referring to isn't exactly a spring chicken either. cgf
