From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: by sourceware.org (Postfix, from userid 2155) id 4590E3857819; Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:05:44 +0000 (GMT) DKIM-Filter: OpenDKIM Filter v2.11.0 sourceware.org 4590E3857819 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-cvs@sourceware.org Subject: [newlib-cygwin] Cygwin: _pipe: add a comment X-Act-Checkin: newlib-cygwin X-Git-Author: Corinna Vinschen X-Git-Refname: refs/heads/master X-Git-Oldrev: 28eac9272f83c256887545f6a28b0ffac655bdef X-Git-Newrev: 9cfbb5aa82fc9ff49b1468bfad9d446eecb207c0 Message-Id: <20210914150544.4590E3857819@sourceware.org> Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:05:44 +0000 (GMT) X-BeenThere: cygwin-cvs@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Cygwin core component git logs List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Sep 2021 15:05:44 -0000 https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=newlib-cygwin.git;h=9cfbb5aa82fc9ff49b1468bfad9d446eecb207c0 commit 9cfbb5aa82fc9ff49b1468bfad9d446eecb207c0 Author: Corinna Vinschen 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 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) {