On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 05:28:17PM -0000, James Johnston wrote: >Well, good call. I shouldn't have jumped to conclusions. Both my C++ >and C# examples still fail:
Not really a call. It was obviously different failure. The previous fix wasn't even pipe related. But, regardless, Corinna (who has more time these days to look into this type of thing) found a damning piece of MSDN documentation which indicates that a write of zero bytes to a pipe will cause a read of zero bytes on the other end of the pipe. So, a program which assumes that a zero byte read means EOF, like most Linux programs, will stop processing when it sees the zero bytes from ReadFile. Corinna sent me a patch to fix the problem which I've mildly tweaked and installed. It's in the latest snapshot. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
