Houder wrote:
I applied strace to "grep . < fifo", and as far as I can tell "an lseek
is applied to the fifo", which obviously fails.
The "lseek" occurs on Cygwin (and MinGW?), but not on Linux
That's expected, as the code needs to run lseek in some places on Cygwin where
it's not needed on GNU/Linux.
My guess is that you've got an old version of grep on Cygwin, and need to
upgrade to the current version. If you still have problems with the latest
version, please investigate via GDB and/or other means exactly why grep is
failing for you. The strace output isn't enough, unfortunately.
