[Mingw-notify] [ mingw-Bugs-2853975 ] Msys 1.0.11 broken on Windows9x

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Bugs item #2853975, was opened at 2009-09-08 02:02
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Status: Open
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Priority: 5
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Submitted By: Peter Hayward (peterhayward)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Msys 1.0.11 broken on Windows9x

Initial Comment:
OS Windows 98se
MSYS version 1.0.11

Having corrected msys.bat as per my comment on bug 2845328 I have a shell running and 
Bash builtins working correctly, but external commands are met with the message
- Cannot open

Searching the source for "- Cannot open" took me to the function
  IsMsys(const char *File) in file ...\winsup\cygwin\ismsys.cc

The problem seems to be with the FILE_SHARE_DELETE flag at line 95 which I 
believe is not supported on Windows9x.Unfortunately msdn documentation is not 
now very helpful on older versions of Windows, but a simple test program suggests that
CreateFile() will always fail if this flag is used.

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