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