Re: Cygwin Dirmngr and TBB for windows

[Marco Atzeri <marco dot atzeri at gmail dot com>]

Am 30.08.2018 um 11:30 schrieb john doe:
> 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?


a Simple Test Case will help to verify the claim.

connect is not expected to return EPERM
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/connect.html




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