> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@;redhat.com] > > On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:17:11PM +1300, Ross Smith wrote: > >If you take any command-line program that writes to stdout > -- plain old > >"hello world" will do fine -- compile it with gcc, and run it several > >times with >> somefile, then you get a file containing several copies > >of "hello world", as you'd expect. But if you compile it with Visual > >C++ instead, then instead of appending to the file, it just > overwrites > >the beginning of the file every time. > > Should be fixed in cvs. I'm generating a snapshot. > > The problem was caused by this change from Pavel Tsekov: > > http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2002-q3/msg00064.html > > I had a nagging feeling that this was a problem when it was > checked in. > > My fix still keeps this patch but it resets file pointers > before execing > a new process. That seems to work.
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