-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Dave on 4/21/2006 11:45 AM: > I'm trying to get a mingw GUI application to pipe commands to cygwins > bash by redirecting its stdin as described here > <http://support.microsoft.com/?id=190351>.
Why not just spawn bash with command line arguments, and use the -c flag to pass the commands as arguments rather than on stdin? > Does anyone know what I can do to get bash to respond promptly? Or will > this approach not work with bash? It might not be bash's fault, but a general limitation of how cygwin handles pipes from non-cygwin processes. A simple test case is a necessity if you expect help debugging this. > GNU bash, version 3.00.16(14)-release (i686-pc-cygwin) What about upgrading to bash 3.1, now that bash-3.1-5 is the current version? - -- Life is short - so eat dessert first! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.1 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD4DBQFESiZN84KuGfSFAYARApHkAKCHzsTH1EDrBD9cG83vPNNVWSYXSgCY0OpX 95Is5eU0yj3h3C/qhbGXCA== =0I5l -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
