Re: [MinGW-dvlpr] [MSYS] - deep impact - fchdir and related functions.

[Max T. W. <ma...@mt...>]

Earnie Boyd wrote:
> 
> On 2:49:51 am 2005-06-27 Christopher Faylor <me...@cg...> wrote:
> > On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 09:40:43PM -0400, Max T. Woodbury wrote:
> > > And yes MSys has a magnificent amount of code.  Much more than I'd
> > > care to try to write by myself.  However, I read other peoples code
> > > fairly quickly.  That was the first thing I learned when I started
> > > programming.  (And it wasn't nice, clean, well formatted and well
> > > structured code like yours either.  It was a bastard version of
> > > 1960s style FORTRAN with rampant GOTOs written by an 'old hand' who
> > > learned 'real programming' as a mathematician in the early 50s that
> > > I started on!)
> >
> > I'm a little lost here.  It sounds like you're talking about adding
> > fchdir to msys.  If so, adding this to cygwin was a pretty trivial
> > undertaking so it shouldn't be that hard to do for msys.  I wouldn't
> > use the example of djgpp as a basis for determining what is possible
> > for a cygwin derivative.
> >
> 
> I'm lost as well.  Fchdir is already a part of msys.  Fchdir wasn't working
> for Max when he built an MSYS dependent findutils.  But the distributed
> find.exe doesn't use fchdir anyway.  I'll take a look later this AM.

You were going to send/post the config.log?