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newlib-cygwin/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_dev_fd.cc
Johannes Schindelin 4ec08891a0 Cygwin: Implicitly support the /dev/fd symlink and friends
Bash has a very convenient feature that is called process substitution
(e.g. `diff -u <(seq 0 10) <(seq 1 11)`). To make this work, Bash
requires the `/dev/fd` symlink to exist, and Cygwin therefore creates
this symlink (together with the `stdin`, `stdout` and `stderr` ones)
upon start-up.

This strategy is incompatible with the idea of providing a subset of
Cygwin in a `.zip` file (because there is no standard way to represent
symlinks in `.zip` files, and besides, older Windows versions would
potentially lack support for them anyway).

That type of `.zip` file is what Git for Windows wants to use, though,
bundling a minimal subset for third-party applications in MinGit (see
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/MinGit for details).

Let's side-step this problem completely by creating those symlinks
implicitly, similar to the way `/dev/` is populated with special
devices.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
2022-02-22 13:33:00 +01:00

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/* fhandler_process_fd.cc: fhandler for the /dev/{fd,std{in,out,err}} symlinks
This file is part of Cygwin.
This software is a copyrighted work licensed under the terms of the
Cygwin license. Please consult the file "CYGWIN_LICENSE" for
details. */
#include "winsup.h"
#include "path.h"
#include "fhandler.h"
fhandler_dev_fd::fhandler_dev_fd ():
fhandler_virtual ()
{
}
virtual_ftype_t
fhandler_dev_fd::exists ()
{
return virt_symlink;
}
int __reg2
fhandler_dev_fd::fstat (struct stat *buf)
{
const char *path = get_name ();
debug_printf ("fstat (%s)", path);
fhandler_base::fstat (buf);
buf->st_mode = S_IFLNK | STD_RBITS | S_IWUSR | S_IWGRP | S_IWOTH | STD_XBITS;
buf->st_ino = get_ino ();
return 0;
}
bool
fhandler_dev_fd::fill_filebuf ()
{
const char *path = get_name ();
debug_printf ("fill_filebuf (%s)", path);
const char *native = get_native_name ();
if (!native)
{
return false;
}
free(filebuf);
filebuf = cstrdup (native);
return true;
}