Re: PATCH: cygwin stat code (again)

[cgf@xxxxxxxxxx (Christopher Faylor)]

In article <1010512104101.ZM6168@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Bart Schaefer <schaefer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On May 12,  9:32am, Andrej Borsenkow wrote:
>} Subject: RE: PATCH: cygwin stat code (again)
>}
>} > mflags in stat under cygwin shouldn't be const, since it needs to be
>} > initialised at run time.
>} 
>} Was not this already fixed?
>
>PWS made a different change; his patch made
>
>	static const mode_t mflags[9]
>
>into
>
>	static mode_t mflags[9]
>
>whereas my patch changed the values within the array.  I should have
>caught that the `const' needed to go away too.

FWIW, I've been convinced that this change to Cygwin caused many more
problems than it solved so it has been reverted in 1.3.2.

FYI,
cgf