Re: stat() vs cygwin

Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>>
>>> Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm confused. There is a Cygwin member of buildfarm, working quite
>>>> happily. Can you point me to the exact patch in question, please? I
>>>> thought we resolved the matter of stat() ages ago.
>>>>
>>>>
>>> http://archives.postgresql.org/message-id/4865F707.6010702%40x-ray.at
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> That patch is NOT about $subject. In fact, if you read that whole thread
>> you will see here
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2008-06/msg00915.php that I
>> conducted a test on Cygwin and found it was not suffering from the
>> problem we fixed on WIN32.
>>
>> AFAICT Reini's patch is about fixing OpenSSL and possibly some other
>> options on Cygwin. It was rejected because it had other problems, but is
>> not indicative of a fundamental problem on Cygwin. There is no reason I
>> am aware of that we should declare Cygwin no longer supported, no matter
>> how much its continued existence apparently annoys a few people :-) .
>>
>
> Oh, good, thanks for clearing that up. So should we just document that
> OpenSSL doesn't work on Cygwin and call this item closed?
>
>

This item should be closed. We should see if Reini can submit an
acceptable patch for OpenSSL.

cheers

andrew