Re: Patch to avoid using mkfifo under Cygwin

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>]

> On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Mo DeJong wrote:
> 
> 
>> Here is a patch that avoids calling mkfifo under Cygwin since
>> it is not functional.
> 
> 
> Ok, so given cgf's latest comments, do we want to hold off on this or 
> revert it when the cygwin work is ready? Maybe we can write an autoconf 
> test for it?

What about the 5.3 branch?

Andrew


>> 2002-09-12  Mo DeJong  <supermo@bayarea.net>
>> 
>> 	* unix/tclUnixFCmd.c (DoCopyFile): Don't use mkfifo
>> 	when compiling with Cygwin, since it is not supported.
>> 
>> Index: unix/tclUnixFCmd.c
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /cvs/src/src/tcl/unix/tclUnixFCmd.c,v
>> retrieving revision 1.2
>> diff -u -r1.2 tclUnixFCmd.c
>> --- unix/tclUnixFCmd.c	9 Sep 2001 23:56:09 -0000	1.2
>> +++ unix/tclUnixFCmd.c	12 Sep 2002 22:37:10 -0000
>> @@ -391,12 +391,18 @@
>>  	    }
>>  	    return CopyFileAtts(src, dst, &srcStatBuf);
>>  	}
>> +#ifndef __CYGWIN__
>> +        /*
>> +         * mkfifo is not supported under Cygwin even though it is prototyped
>> +         * in newlib headers.
>> +         */
>>          case S_IFIFO: {
>>  	    if (mkfifo(dst, srcStatBuf.st_mode) < 0) {	/* INTL: Native. */
>>  		return TCL_ERROR;
>>  	    }
>>  	    return CopyFileAtts(src, dst, &srcStatBuf);
>>  	}
>> +#endif /* __CYGWIN__ */
>>          default: {
>>  	    return CopyFile(src, dst, &srcStatBuf);
>>  	}
>> 
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