From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ptsname_r on Cygwin
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 13:21:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a160ce54-4467-e663-05af-be6ae1375c24@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3482750.exAXJ2mfqj@omega>
Hi Bruno,
On 1/20/2021 1:31 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> On Cygwin 2.9 (64-bit) I see a test failure in test-ptsname_r.c, here:
>
> {
> char buffer[256];
> int result;
>
> result = ptsname_r (-1, buffer, sizeof buffer);
> ASSERT (result != 0); // <======================== HERE
> ASSERT (result == EBADF || result == ENOTTY);
> }
>
> While https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/ptsname_r.3.html
> says that ptsname_r, upon failure, should return an error code, on Cygwin,
> it returns 0 and stores the empty string in 'buffer'.
>
> This causes 2 test failures of Gnulib tests:
>
>
> FAIL: test-ptsname
> ==================
>
> ../../gltests/test-ptsname.c:76: assertion 'result == NULL' failed
> FAIL test-ptsname.exe (exit status: 134)
>
> FAIL: test-ptsname_r
> ====================
>
> ../../gltests/test-ptsname_r.c:126: assertion 'result != 0' failed
> FAIL test-ptsname_r.exe (exit status: 134)
Thanks for the report. I've submitted a patch that fixes this:
https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-patches/2021q1/010995.html
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-21 18:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-20 6:31 ptsname_r on Cygwin Bruno Haible
2021-01-20 8:11 ` Bruno Haible
2021-01-21 18:21 ` Ken Brown [this message]
2021-01-21 20:26 ` Bruno Haible
2021-01-21 22:45 ` Ken Brown
2021-01-22 15:48 ` Ken Brown
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