On 5/4/2024 10:36 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
I'm committing this workaround.
Thanks! I've tested on Cygwin 3.5.3 and on the latest test release, and
I can confirm that the problem is fixed.
Ken
Ken Brown wrote:
> I don't know what's going on, but it seems clear that pagefile.sys can't
> be used reliably on Cygwin to get a boot time. I wonder if
> get_boot_time should simply bail out on Cygwin and always give a boot
> time of 0. Or do you have a better idea?
I'm committing this worka
Hi Ken,
> $ ls -l /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys/
> ls: cannot open directory '/proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys/': Not a directory
>
> $ ls -ld /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys/
> drwxr-x--- 17664 Unknown+User Unknown+Group 0 1600-12-31 19:11
> /proc/cygdrive/c/pagefile.sys//
>
> Notice that the file
Hi Bruno,
Unfortunately, fixing the cygdrive bug has made things worse from the
point of view of emacs, at least on my system. Namely, I can't even
build emacs. The build produces warnings like the following and
ultimately fails:
Warning (unlock-file): Unlocking file: Invalid argument,
/h
Ken Brown wrote:
> I don't know anything about Docker containers or jails, but it's my
> understanding that /proc/cygdrive always exists.
Thanks for the confirmation.
Bruno
Hi Bruno,
On 5/1/2024 6:52 PM, Bruno Haible wrote:
I did not know about /proc/cygdrive; thanks for teaching us. I guess it can be
assumed that /proc/cygdrive exists, because unlike in Linux, there are no
Docker containers and unlike in FreeBSD, there are no jails?
I don't know anything about D
Hi Ken,
Thanks for the report.
> > First, there is a comment
> > saying that /var/run/utmp is empty on Cygwin. This is not true, at
> > least on my system. I'm running Cygwin 3.5.3, the latest stable
> > release.
In my Cygwin 3.5.3 installation, /var/run/utmp is empty. But anyway,
since you
On 5/1/2024 4:44 PM, Ken Brown wrote:
An Emacs bug report
(https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=70415) has led me to look
at gnulib's boot-time, and I discovered a problem. I haven't studied
the code in detail, but I looked at get_windows_boot_time in
boot-time-aux.h and found two mi
An Emacs bug report
(https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=70415) has led me to look
at gnulib's boot-time, and I discovered a problem. I haven't studied
the code in detail, but I looked at get_windows_boot_time in
boot-time-aux.h and found two mistakes. First, there is a comment
say
