Re: stat() vs cygwin

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?

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