Re: Patch to avoid using mkfifo under Cygwin

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at ges dot redhat dot 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);
> >  	}