Re: a couple of patches to deal with w32 semantics

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Eric Blake wrote on Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:58:16PM CET:
> Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues <at> gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > here are two more patches for w32. [...]
> > OK to apply?
> 
> Bah - I posted and committed a similar patch before I read this.

No worries, your patch was better anyway.

> > +# If making a directory and moving files from there to . succeeds, we
> > +# are probably on cygwin.
> 
> Not just cygwin, but windows in general.  And not just moving files into a 
> read-
> only directory, but deleting files from there as well.  Isn't it scary that 
> Windows thinks everyone deserves root-like privileges?

Yep.  Note that somehow the MSYS runtime seemed to avoid this trap,
though.

> >     On MinGW, substitution of CR and 0xFF fails.
> > 
> >     * tests/torture.at (Substitute and define special characters):
> >     MinGW awk cannot handle 0xFF, and on MinGW, the test does the
> >     wrong thing for CR.
> 
> I can't speak for this one (I avoid mingw as much as possible, only cross-
> compiling there), but it looks reasonable.  Please apply.

Done, thanks!

Cheers,
Ralf