On Thu, 3 Jan 2019, Johannes Pfau wrote: > > Debugging shows that the access function used to check > if the input files exist has different behavior in newer msvcr libraries: > It does return proper results for the 'nul' file in the old msvcrt.dll > but in newer libraries it returns EINVAL for the nul file.
I would recommend to consult with MinGW-W64 maintainers first: it may be appropriate to handle this in mingw's wrapper for the access function. In any case, they should be informed about this weird regression. Cheers. Alexander
