Cygwin Dirmngr and TBB for windows

[john doe]

On 8/30/2018 5:07 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Aug 30 14:35, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>> Am 30.08.2018 um 11:30 schrieb john doe:
>>> On 7/11/2018 10:11 AM, john doe wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to get Cygwin dirmngr to work with  Tor Browser for Windows.
>>>>
>>>> Following some discussion on the gnupg user list it looks like that
>>>> the connect(2) function in Cygwin does not return the proper error
>>>> code:
>>>>
>>>> https://lists.gnupg.org/pipermail/gnupg-users/2018-July/060768.html
>>>>
>>>> On the above link one of the dev suggest that connect(2) returns
>>>> EPERMS instead of ECONREFUSED.
>>>>
>>>> If ECONREFUSED is not returned when port 9050 is queried the
>>>> fallback code in dirmngr will not be executed and port 9150 will
>>>> never be used.
>>>>
>>>> Using dirmngr on Debian with TBBfor linux works as expected.
>>>>
>>>> Can anyone confirm that and subcequently make Cygwin return the
>>>> proper error code?
>>>>
>>>> Any help is appriciated.
>>>>
>>>
>>> As any one has been able to confirm that the issue is present in Cygwin
>>> code?
>>> I didn't see anything regarding this issue in the beta version of Cygwin
>>> or did I mist it?
>>
>>
>> a Simple Test Case will help to verify the claim.
> 
> Full ACK.
> 
>> connect is not expected to return EPERM
>> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/connect.html
> 
> Cygwin does not explicitely generate EPERM anywhere near
> AF_INET/AF_INET6 code.  Nor does a Winsock error exist which
> gets gonverted to EPERM.
> 
> The *only* way to generate EPERM is if an underlying Winsock function
> returns an error code not handled by Cygwin.  I never encountered
> that case, though.  Thus, a STC is highly appreciated.
> 
> 
> Corinna
> 

Thanks both for your answer and your willingness to look into this.

STC:
1)  Have Tor Browser for Windows up and running.
2)  Start dirmngr:
   $ mkdir ${HOME}/try
   $ dirmngr --homedir ${HOME}/try -vvv --debug-all --server --use-tor
   -> KS_GET -- 0x6C6ACD6417B3ACB1

Basically, dirmngr should be able to connect to TBB for Windows like it 
does on linux and retreave the key.

Let me know if more informations are needed.
I  came to this list  because the issue seems to come from Cygwin, 
according  to the discussion at the first URL in this e-mail.

-- 
John Doe

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