Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
> Well, it would be nice if doing that didn't hang mingw. It looks like
> Microsoft has a bug, because using dup2(fd,fd) when fd is closed appears to
> deadlock the process.
mingw also hangs on the second dup2 in dup2(fd,fd),dup2(fd,fd+1) if fd is open
(meaning th
Eric Blake byu.net> writes:
> > Yes, that's definitely a portability pitfall that warrants a wrapper module.
>
> And in writing the testcase, I learned that cygwin 1.5 also has a bug, in
> that dup2(1,1) returns 0 (but at least cygwin's dup2(1,2) returns 2).
> Although you seldom see code using
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According to Bruno Haible on 7/20/2009 6:00 PM:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>> On mingw, dup2 always returns 0 for success, rather than the fd just opened.
>> So I guess I'll start the process of writing a dup2 replacement module;
>
> Yes, that's definitely a
Eric Blake wrote:
> On mingw, dup2 always returns 0 for success, rather than the fd just opened.
> So I guess I'll start the process of writing a dup2 replacement module;
Yes, that's definitely a portability pitfall that warrants a wrapper module.
Bruno
