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@ 2021-09-14 15:05 Corinna Vinschen
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From: Corinna Vinschen @ 2021-09-14 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw)
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https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=9cfbb5aa82fc9ff49b1468bfad9d446eecb207c0
commit 9cfbb5aa82fc9ff49b1468bfad9d446eecb207c0
Author: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Date: Tue Aug 31 10:50:23 2021 +0200
Cygwin: _pipe: add a comment
I wasted valuable minutes of my life just to find out why we export
this weird version of pipe. In the pre-2000 era the idea was Cygwin
could be used as drop-in replacement for msvcrt.dll, apparently.
Signed-off-by: Corinna Vinschen <corinna@vinschen.de>
Diff:
---
winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
index 16780a12e..11af079cb 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/syscalls.cc
@@ -5217,6 +5217,7 @@ pipe_worker (int filedes[2], unsigned int psize, int mode)
return res;
}
+/* MS compatible version of pipe. Hopefully nobody is using it... */
extern "C" int
_pipe (int filedes[2], unsigned int psize, int mode)
{
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