Set errno to EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENXIO when 'open' is called on a
socket. This is consistent with POSIX, starting with the 2016
edition. Earlier editions were silent on this issue.
---
winsup/cygwin/fhandler_socket.cc | 2 +-
winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.3 | 5 +++++
winsup/doc/new-features.xml | 4 ++++
3 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
create mode 100644 winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.3
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_socket.cc b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_socket.cc
index 9f33d8087..227004b43 100644
--- a/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_socket.cc
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/fhandler_socket.cc
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ fhandler_socket::fcntl (int cmd, intptr_t arg)
int
fhandler_socket::open (int flags, mode_t mode)
{
- set_errno (ENXIO);
+ set_errno (EOPNOTSUPP);
return 0;
}
diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.3 b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.3
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..654201c6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/winsup/cygwin/release/3.1.3
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+What changed:
+-------------
+
+- The errno is now EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENXIO when 'open' is called
+ on a socket.
diff --git a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
index 65bdc17ab..1d93c7730 100644
--- a/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
+++ b/winsup/doc/new-features.xml
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ Allow times(2) to have a NULL argument, as on Linux.
Improve /proc/cpuinfo output and align more closely with Linux.
</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>
+The errno is now EOPNOTSUPP instead of ENXIO when 'open' is called on a socket.
+</para></listitem>
+
</itemizedlist>
</sect2>
--
2.21.0
