Cygwin1.dll 1.7.0-5x: RSYNC failures in close() system call on pipe file descriptors

Eric Blake ebb9@byu.net
Thu Aug 13 20:30:00 GMT 2009


Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please <at> cygwin.com> writes:

> >often this type of bug reappears, too - historical cygwin has had it in
> >the past with newlib's popen implementation (I fixed it 2006-08-22), as
> 
> Just a point of order: Cygwin doesn't use the newlib version of
> popen.

It doesn't now, but did prior to your patch in 2006-12-11, hence my newlib 
patch had an effect on cygwin for a window of 4 months.  I did say "historical 
cygwin" ;)

-- 
Eric Blake




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