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Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: bug #17457: "grep -r foo . > somefile" goes into an infinite loop
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2011 12:05:04 +0200

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 07/26/2011 10:26 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> > >  I don't know about typical mingw file system usage.
>> > >  Do mingw users use NTFS often?
>> >
>> >  Yes, all of them.  MinGW is just the name of the free compiler
>> >  toolchain for Windows.  Unlike cygwin, it uses the MS C library, so
>> >  anything MS documents applies to mingw.
>>
>> Bear in mind that cross-compiling mingw users often use ext3 and ext4,
>> so any run-time test in a stat-like replacement function would affect
>> them, too.
>
> I don't understand this sentence. :)  What run-time test do you refer to?

It was my misunderstanding.



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