-------------------------------------------------- Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: (10/02/2015 17:33)
> On 02/10/2015 09:28 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > > > > The bug is in cygwin1.dll, not bash. Here's a STC; opening a file > > should NOT change its st_ino number, but that's exactly what cygwin is > > doing to /dev/tty. As such, bash thinks that because the ino changed > > between stat() and open() that there is a race of someone trying to do > > bad things behind bash's back, and noclobber restrictions kick in to > > prevent bash from using the file. > > The same test from the command line: > > $ stat -c %i /dev/tty - 0>/dev/tty > 327680 > 8912896 > > use any other (already-existing) file to see that the two numbers should > normally be the same. Don't know why, but cygwin is not the only OS that does that. I'd suggest to check for terminal or something. -Helmut -- 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
