On 6/29/2019 3:06 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> Cc: 36405@debbugs.gnu.org, kbrown@cornell.edu
>> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
>> Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2019 23:26:09 -0700
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> What problems did you see/envision on other platforms with the
>>> original patch?
>>
>> Mainly the hassle of maintaining code with a lot of hard-to-read ifdefs in it.
>> It's better if system-specific stuff is kept to a minimum in mainline code.
> 
> I agree, of course.  But in this case we are talking about adding 2
> #ifdef's, so the situation is not much worse than it was before.
> 
>> Also, this O_PATH stuff is not that high of a priority, as the code works quite
>> well in practice without O_PATH.
> 
> It was evidently important enough for us to use it on platforms that
> support it.
> 
>> How about something like the attached patch instead? It's simpler and should be
>> a bit faster on Cygwin than the original patch. I haven't tested it.
> 
> Thanks, this is fine with me if it does the job.  Ken?

Fine with me too, after a small tweak.  Revised patch attached.

Thanks, Paul.

Ken