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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: Tue, 26 Jul 2011 22:26:29 +0200

Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> On 07/26/2011 03:42 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.



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