[MinGW-Users] RFC: Work around POSIX non-conformity of Microsoft's dup2() function

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Eli Zaretskii eliz****@gnu*****
Sat Jun 26 15:45:16 JST 2021


> From: Keith Marshall <keith****@users*****>
> Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2021 19:36:00 +0100
> 
> The documentation describes it as a POSIX function, (in name at least,
> and albeit deprecated for use with MSVC), but its behaviour definitely
> does NOT conform to the POSIX.1 specification.
> 
> I've written a description of the issue, and proposed corrective action,
> as ticket https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/ticket/42561
> 
> I would appreciate a review of my proposed changes, by the MinGW user
> community.  In the absence of any objections, I plan to incorporate the
> proposed (option 4) change into the next mingwrt release.

Thanks, I commented there.



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