Re: Windows semihosting (remote-fileio) fix for console reads

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-06-10T23:44:01Z

On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 12:28:33AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> That rings a bell, but I'll need to dig deep into old files to find
> out the details. In the meantime, could you please post a short test
> program that demonstrates this failure?

I'm afraid I don't have one; I tested by changing the size of the read
performed by remote-fileio, which requires a remote target and stub to
reproduce.

It turned out to be trivial to reproduce it manually though. Here.
Running this under Cygwin works (there, stdin is a pipe); this includes
running it from a Cygwin bash in a command terminal. But if you
Start->Run cmd.exe, and then run the test program, read will fail.

[Interestingly, if I use a stack buffer and it's far too small for the
read request, Cygwin returns EINVAL... nice trick.]

#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <string.h>

static char buf[32768];

int
main (int argc, char **argv)
{
int ret, err;

sprintf (buf, "Type something:\n");
write (1, buf, strlen (buf));
errno = 0;
ret = read (0, buf, 26609);
err = errno;

sprintf (buf, "read returned %d, errno %d\n", ret, err);
write (1, buf, strlen (buf));
return 0;
}

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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