Xggi/glide

[Chris Faylor]

On Wed, Jul 14, 1999 at 09:34:59PM -0500, Mumit Khan wrote:
>On Wed, 14 Jul 1999, Chris Faylor wrote:
>> 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.
>
>I've heard positive reports on newer snapshots. But, since you say that
>there is a chance it might still happen, I'm going to disable the inode
>based optimization in cpp to avoid future problems. This unfortunately 
>causes subtle and confusing compile time errors/glitches that are very 
>hard to track down, even for experienced users.

I agree that this feature should be turned off for Windows.  In
actuality, it's possible (but even more unlikely) that NT 4.0 will have
duplicate inodes, too.

I just didn't think that people would be seeing many (any?) of these
problems with recent snapshots.

cgf