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Re: GNU coreutils does not work on Cygwin because of freopen() ?
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According to Dave Korn on 1/18/2009 2:42 PM:
> However, you may have to recreate all the cygwin-specific patches that the
> cygwin bash maintainer hasn't managed to send upstream yet...
Not only that, but some of those patches will never be sent upstream,
because they are too platform-specific. As for this particular issue of
freopen, I'm dragging my feet - the cygwin patch works, and no other
mainstream platform is affected, so even though I have _already_ pointed
out upstream that the current freopen use is buggy, I haven't bothered
patching things upstream yet (I only have so much free time).
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2008-10/msg00199.html
>> However, I noticed there are some very weird bugs happening. See for
>> example, this bug in cat (don't look at the title of the page, I blamed
>> bash first)
>> http://paster.dazjorz.com/?p=3845
Yes, this is a known upstream bug in coreutils, but which only affects
cygwin, and which is already fixed on cygwin, so there is very little need
or desire to spend time fixing it upstream.
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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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