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-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog5
-rw-r--r--winsup/cygwin/pipe.cc6
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
index 4b565f6..088fba4 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2004-09-09 Bas van Gompel <cygwin-patch.buzz@bavag.tmfweb.nl>
+
+ * pipe.cc (create_selectable_pipe): Work around bug in Windows 95
+ where CreateNamedPipe returns NULL.
+
2004-09-08 Pierre Humblet <pierre.humblet@ieee.org>
* cygheap.h (cwdstuff::drive_length): New member.
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/pipe.cc b/winsup/cygwin/pipe.cc
index 2a0095f..aff3dd1 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/pipe.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/pipe.cc
@@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ create_selectable_pipe (PHANDLE read_pipe_ptr,
the pipe was not created earlier by some other process, even if
the pid has been reused. We avoid FILE_FLAG_FIRST_PIPE_INSTANCE
because that is only available for Win2k SP2 and WinXP. */
+ SetLastError (0);
read_pipe = CreateNamedPipe (pipename,
PIPE_ACCESS_INBOUND,
PIPE_TYPE_BYTE | PIPE_READMODE_BYTE,
@@ -268,13 +269,14 @@ create_selectable_pipe (PHANDLE read_pipe_ptr,
NMPWAIT_USE_DEFAULT_WAIT,
sa_ptr);
- if (read_pipe != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
+ DWORD err = GetLastError ();
+ /* Win 95 seems to return NULL instead of INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE */
+ if ((read_pipe || !err) && read_pipe != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE)
{
debug_printf ("pipe read handle %p", read_pipe);
break;
}
- DWORD err = GetLastError ();
switch (err)
{
case ERROR_PIPE_BUSY: