Xggi/glide

Chris Faylor cgf@cygnus.com
Wed Jul 14 20:27:00 GMT 1999


On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 03:11:18PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Suhaib M. Siddiqi wrote:
>The problem is in Cygwin, and I believe on Win9x, where multiple files end
>up getting the same inode numbers. The C preprocessor in egcs and gcc use
>the inode numbers to avoid including the same file multiple times, and this
>causes problems when two *different* files have the same inode number.

Isn't this fixed in recent cygwin snapshots?  There's still a chance that
multiple files will get the same inode but it should not be as great as
it once was.

cgf


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