[ANNOUNCEMENT] Cygwin 3.0.0-1

[Andrey Repin]

Greetings, Brian Inglis!

> On 2019-02-17 10:07, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>> On 2019-02-17 09:42, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>> On Feb 17 18:28, Andrey Repin wrote:
>>>>> The redirection issue I mentioned for 3.0-0.9 is still happens.
>>>>> And I see the STC did not made it to the list.
>>>>> Hamsters were hungry, I guess... Let's try without attachments.
>>>>> TYPE "%SystemRoot%\win.ini" | diff -u "%SystemRoot%\win.ini" -
>>>> I'm baffled.  diff calls fstat on descriptor 0.  fstat returns
>>>> with st_mode set to S_IFIFO | S_IRUSR, so it *knows* descriptor
>>>> 0 is a pipe and thus not seekable.  Nevertheless it calls lseek
>>>> just a bit later to seek back to the beginning of input.
>>> Appears to be running under Windows shell (TYPE) and pipe redirection - could
>>> that make a difference under some Windows versions about what is known?
>>> What are uname -srvmo and cmd /c ver?
>> It's Win7Pro/RUS SP1 64-bit, if that's what you were after.
>> (Can't install back 3.0 right now, but I'll do that later if it's important.)
>> $ cmd /c ver
>> Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7601]

> No problems for me under Win10 1809 with previous Cygwin release - after current
> upgrade:
>> TYPE "%SystemRoot%\win.ini" | diff -u "%SystemRoot%\win.ini" -
> diff: -: Illegal seek

Did we find a century old upstream bug? :)


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With best regards,
Andrey Repin
Sunday, February 17, 2019 21:10:47

Sorry for my terrible english...


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