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Re: GNU coreutils does not work on Cygwin because of freopen() ?


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According to Sjors Gielen on 1/18/2009 3:11 PM:
>> cygwin bash maintainer hasn't managed to send upstream yet...
> [snip]
>> ?? Are you using an old version??  It should be fixed by now.
>>
>> http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@gnu.org/msg10188.html
> 
> Oooh. Can I get a list of patches the Cygwin project has already applied
> to packages? :)

Yes.  Use setup.exe, and select the "src" checkbox next to coreutils (or
any other package where you want to know what went into the cygwin
version).  For coreutils, that will get you all of my cygwin-specific
patches to coreutils.

> So this bug was fixed in Cygwin's version of GNU coreutils, but not in
> Debian's version of GNU coreutils. Has a patch for that been sent
> upstream? I took GNU coreutils from Debian sid, which should be almost
> as up to date as it gets...

Debian coreutils does not care about cygwin-specific patches, and the
freopen in question, while it is indeed buggy upstream, only affects
cygwin and other platforms that define O_BINARY.  Since that excludes
debian, then debian's fork of coreutils has no reason to patch it.

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Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake             ebb9@byu.net
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