base cygwin patches

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Sun Sep 1 06:30:34 UTC 2002


greg andruk <gja at meowing.net> writes:

> Upcoming stuff: I've a need to disable mmap, but only in innd/icd.c; and
> to use pipe() instead of socketpair() even though the latter exists.  I
> can't really use test programs because the bugs I'm avoiding both tend
> to result in hung processes, and I'm hoping that future releases will
> make these problems go away.  Are configure command switches okay for
> these two?

Doing it in configure sounds like the right approach, but I hate to add
more switches for things that are that subtle.  Maybe just test on whether
we're building on cygwin and later check for specific versions of cygwin?

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