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Re: Slow compdump on Vista - no .zcompdump created



On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:16:17 +0100
"John Cooper" <John.Cooper@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Presumably other people using Cygwin will also experience this minor
> problem (.zcompdump not being created).
> 
> Another workaround that avoids modifying the compdump function is to
> "chmod +w ~".
> Still, perhaps the check in compdump should be removed (or changed to
> test the directory exists?) when running on Cygwin so that this works
> out of the box.

Generally I don't like the idea of trying to work round gross system errors
like something appearing not writeable when it is, but if there's an
equivalent test that works everywhere we can use that instead.

pws



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