Re: stat() vs cygwin

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 :-) .

cheers

andrew