On 5/2/2024 7:40 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
Hi,
Ken Brown noticed this: pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys are being
reported by Cygwin 3.5.3 as being directories.
Cygwin 3.5.3 on Windows 10:
$ ls -ld /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.*
drwxr-x--- 17664 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Jan 1 1601
/proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys
$ ls -ld /proc/cygdrive/c/swapfile.*
drwxr-x--- 17664 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 Jan 1 1601
/proc/cygdrive/c/swapfile.sys
It turns out that this was a regression in 3.5.3 and was already
reported (in a slightly different form) in
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin/2024-April/255812.html
and fixed for 3.5.4. Until that's released, you can try the latest test
release (3.6.0-0.115.g579064bf4d40).
Do you have a workaround? In Gnulib we wish to have a way to access this file,
that works on all versions of Cygwin.
3.5.3 is the only version that's bad. I can't think of a workaround,
but maybe someone else can. If not, I guess Gnulib will just have to
bail out and return a boot time of 0 on Cygwin 3.5.3.
Ken
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