Re: invoking gunzip.exe

[Karl Berry]

Hi Chris,

I installed your patch, since it's apparent that it only affects Cygwin.
(The NULL_DEVICE stuff was already there, not that it matters.)  I guess
no changes to filesys.c are needed.

Thanks,
Karl

--- lib/system.h.orig   2004-04-26 09:56:57.000000000 -0400
+++ lib/system.h        2007-04-24 09:15:14.417656849 -0400
@@ -219,9 +219,14 @@
 # ifdef __CYGWIN__
 #  define DEFAULT_TMPDIR       "/tmp/"
 #  define PATH_SEP     ":"
+#  define STRIP_DOT_EXE        0
+#  undef NULL_DEVICE
+#  define NULL_DEVICE "/dev/null"
+#  define PIPE_USE_FORK        1
 # else  /* O_BINARY && !__CYGWIN__ */
 #  define DEFAULT_TMPDIR       "c:/"
 #  define PATH_SEP     ";"
+#  define STRIP_DOT_EXE        1
 # endif /* O_BINARY && !__CYGWIN__ */
   /* Back to any O_BINARY system.  */
 # define FILENAME_CMP  strcasecmp
@@ -233,7 +238,6 @@
 # define IS_ABSOLUTE(n)        (IS_SLASH((n)[0]) || ((n)[0] && (n)[1] == ':'))
 # define PIPE_USE_FORK 0
 # define SET_BINARY(f)  do {if (!isatty(f)) setmode(f,O_BINARY);} while(0)
-# define STRIP_DOT_EXE 1
 
 #else  /* not O_BINARY, i.e., Unix */
 # define SET_BINARY(f) (void)0