Python, GDBM and Cygwin

[Jason Tishler]

Godefroid,

On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 03:08:59PM +0100, Godefroid Chapelle wrote:
> At 13:24 30/01/2002, Jason Tishler wrote:
> >Since I'm the Cygwin Python maintainer, I frequently run the regression
> >test suite.  I have never had a test_gdbm failure.  Possibly this is
> >because I run exclusively with binary mode mounts, NT/2000, NTFS, and
> >ntsec.  What is your setup?
> 
> /, /usr/bin and /usr/lib were previously mounted as text (I did not know 
> anything of binary versus text).

Welcome to the wonderful world of Windows!

> I am now able to run testgdbm.exe which is supplied with the gdbm c package.
> As I stated on cygwin list, I previously got CPU load more than 95%  when 
> trying this test.
> 
> test_gdbm.py is also working now...

Good.

> Thanks a lot. !!!!

You are very welcome.  Thanks for posting instead of sending private
email -- it is much appreciated.

> >I would anticipate problems with (at least)
> >text mode mounts and non-NTFS file systems.  I also suggest searching
> >the Cygwin mailing archives to see if there are any known gdbm issues.
> 
> I had done that. And found no indications that gdbm should work on binary 
> mode mounted file systems.
> 
> Do you know how and where to leave a trace of the problem and its solution ?

Yes, just following up to your post on the Cygwin mailing:

    http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2002-01/msg01702.html

to close the thread.

Jason