[Catalyst] FastMmap via Cygwin

[Joseph]

   I'm wrestling with Catalyst under Cygwin.  I wanted to play/prototype 
in that environment.  I have the Catalyst Tutorial working, but with a 
few jury-rigged changes.  I imagine there may be a better way to "fix" 
things...

   I have taken Cache::FastMmap v1.15 (from Ash Berlin) and installed it 
under Cygwin (do forgive me).
   I got Cache::FastMmap and Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::FastMmap 
to test cleanly.  These were holding up the Tutorial since 
Cache::FastMmap v1.14 wouldn't pass tests.  Specifically, it wouldn't 
delete files properly.  Version 1.15 seemed to address this.  At least 
it passed all tests and then all the Catalyst::Tutorial tests passed.

   However... when I got to the point in the tutorial (authentication) 
that seems to make use of this, things did not work.

   The trouble appears to be within CreateFile.  The test files create 
just a file under /tmp.  This works.  But creating 
/tmp/myapp/session_data fails.  The directory /tmp/myapp is created.  
But the error claims it cannot find the path specified.

   Furthermore, the directories created under /tmp aren't removed, 
neither of the sessionstoretest directories nor /tmp/myapp.

   The tests (SessionStoreTest and SessionStoreTest2) for some odd 
reason don't attempt to create files in the directories created.  For 
example, /tmp/sessionstoretest is created due to 
Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::FastMmap->setup_session creating a 
directory per class.  But the test provided for 
Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::FastMmap provides a tmpfile.  I don't 
know exactly who to address this to, but I imagine it would help if 
Catalyst::Plugin::Session::Store::FastMmap tested things the way that 
are used "normally" for Catalyst.

   What is very strange to me is that it works at all for the 
/tmp/ItPb33AIjK but not for /tmp/myapp/session_data.  Why can CreateFile 
find D:/cygwin/tmp/ItPb33AiJK when referred as /tmp/ItPb33AiJK but trip 
up for the directory /tmp/myapp?

   Anyone have any idea?

   I can get around it by hard-coding Catalyst::Utils->class2tempdir 
such that the default temp directory is d:/cygwin/tmp rather than /tmp.  
It seems enormously strange to have to do this.  But it works.

   I hesitated changing from CreateFile to fopen since I don't fully 
appreciate the true problem.  Furthermore, I wanted to get back to 
slogging through the Catalyst tutorial (almost done now).

    I'm not using modperl (yet).  I'm simply calling 
script/myapp_server.pl via the Cygwin bash shell.