On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote: > > > Same happens with dash and ksh93. > > And THAT statement is BAD, because it means basic shell functionality > is broken, affecting dash/bash/ksh93 - reading that IMO means Cygwin > has a problem in the pipe/fifo code... ;-( > > Best way forward is to grab the shell testsuite (e.g. both bash and > ast-ksh/ksh93 ship with test suites), and run the pipe/command > substitution tests.
This report has to do with the case where the other end of the pipe is a native Windows program (rather than another Cygwin program), and that case is (at least used to be) different in the Cygwin pipe code. It's doubtful a UNIX shell test suite would exercise that codepath. BTW, I would not be at all surprised if the following were related somehow: https://github.com/msys2/msys2-runtime/issues/230 https://github.com/git-for-windows/msys2-runtime/pull/75 -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
