Re: Cygwin Dirmngr and TBB for windows

[john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com>]

On 7/11/2018 10:11 AM, john doe wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to get Cygwin dirmngr to work with  Tor Browser for Windows.
> 
> Following some discussion on the gnupg user list it looks like that the 
> connect(2) function in Cygwin does not return the proper error code:
> 
> https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-July/060768.html
> 
> On the above link one of the dev suggest that connect(2) returns EPERMS 
> instead of ECONREFUSED.
> 
> If ECONREFUSED is not returned when port 9050 is queried the fallback 
> code in dirmngr will not be executed and port 9150 will never be used.
> 
> Using dirmngr on Debian with TBBfor linux works as expected.
> 
> Can anyone confirm that and subcequently make Cygwin return the proper 
> error code?
> 
> Any help is appriciated.
> 

As any one has been able to confirm that the issue is present in Cygwin 
code?
I didn't see anything regarding this issue in the beta version of Cygwin 
or did I mist it?

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John Doe

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