Detected by './gnulib-tool --test dup2 cloexec'.
Reported upstream: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-12/msg00377.html
and fixed already: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2012-q4/msg00202.html
but as we want to work with older cygwin, we'll have to carry this
in gnulib for a while.
* m4/dup2.m4 (gl_FUNC_DUP2): Flush out cygwin core dump.
* lib/dup2.c (rpl_dup2): Work around it.
* doc/posix-functions/dup2.texi (dup2): Document it.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
+2012-12-31 Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
+
+ dup2: work around cygwin bug
+ * m4/dup2.m4 (gl_FUNC_DUP2): Flush out cygwin core dump.
+ * lib/dup2.c (rpl_dup2): Work around it.
+ * doc/posix-functions/dup2.texi (dup2): Document it.
+
2012-12-30 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
regex: remove unnecessary dependency on localcharset.h
@item
This function crashes when invoked with invalid arguments on some platforms:
-MSVC 9.
+Cygwin 1.7.17, MSVC 9.
@item
This function resets the @code{FD_CLOEXEC} flag when duplicating an fd
# ifdef F_GETFL
/* On Linux kernels 2.6.26-2.6.29, dup2 (fd, fd) returns -EBADF.
On Cygwin 1.5.x, dup2 (1, 1) returns 0.
+ On Cygwin 1.7.17, dup2 (1, -1) dumps core.
On Haiku, dup2 (fd, fd) mistakenly clears FD_CLOEXEC. */
+ if (desired_fd < 0)
+ fd = desired_fd;
if (fd == desired_fd)
return fcntl (fd, F_GETFL) == -1 ? -1 : fd;
# endif
-#serial 18
+#serial 19
dnl Copyright (C) 2002, 2005, 2007, 2009-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
dnl This file is free software; the Free Software Foundation
dnl gives unlimited permission to copy and/or distribute it,
/* Many gnulib modules require POSIX conformance of EBADF. */
if (dup2 (2, 1000000) == -1 && errno != EBADF)
result |= 16;
+ /* Flush out a cygwin core dump. */
+ if (dup2 (2, -1) != -1 || errno != EBADF)
+ result |= 32;
return result;
])
],