open() and named pipes

Enrico Forestieri forenr@lyx.org
Wed Dec 9 16:37:00 GMT 2009


On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:41:09AM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 03:43:41PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote:
> >Sorry for the very late reply and thanks for fixing the return code
> >from open(). However, this is still not posix compliant as errno is
> >set to ENOENT instead of ENXIO. Indeed, the attached test case prints
> >"No process is reading from the other end." on both Linux and Solaris
> >but nothing on Cygwin.
> 
> The patch below should fix this.  I'll check it in as soon as the latest
> version of Cygwin is released.  That should be imminent.

Thanks! I am looking forward to the release.

-- 
Enrico

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