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Re: errno.h: ESTRPIPE

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Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> What exactly is this patch fixing?  Ok, we get a new error code, but
> what for?  It's not generated from within Cygwin, so...?

I came across a few packages that used it.  This gets us just a little
more compatible with Linux's errno.

Eric Blake wrote:
> And it's not standardized, which means portable code shouldn't use it.

That may be true, but I didn't write this code, and as I am sure you
already know, not everyone thinks about writing portable code.


Yaakov
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