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On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 05:29:01PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Dec  9 10:41, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:43:41PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
>> >Sorry for the very late reply and thanks for fixing the return code
>> >from open(). However, this is still not posix compliant as errno is
>> >set to ENOENT instead of ENXIO. Indeed, the attached test case prints
>> >"No process is reading from the other end." on both Linux and Solaris
>> >but nothing on Cygwin.
>> 
>> The patch below should fix this.  I'll check it in as soon as the latest
>> version of Cygwin is released.  That should be imminent.
>
>Oh, btw.
>
>It just occured to me that we can apply post-1.7.1 patches as soon as we
>like.  I have created the 1.7.1 archive already and there's also a
>cygwin-1_7_1-release tag in CVS.  I'll be only available sporadically
>for the remainder of the week, though.

Ok, in that case, the latest snapshot fixes this problem:

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

Note that I bumped the version to 1.7.2 to avoid confusion with the
upcoming release which will likely not have this fix.

cgf

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