On 29 August 2006 22:00, Silva, Russell wrote: > Hi Dave, > > I tried this; it's an excellent point but isn't the problem. I > experimented using your script version and $? is indeed set to 0 when > the backtick output is empty. > > I'd be happy to hear more suggestions. I also need to try this on > another machine (my home box, perhaps) to see if it's reproducible on > other machines. Have you tried any of these scripts to see if it's a > problem general to Cygwin users?
Yep, I tried >> <bug_reproduce3.sh> before I thought about modifying it. Didn't get the error to occur. Will run it a few more times and see. Am using self-built version of cygwin1.dll from 20060720. I'll see what happens with a more recent version as well. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- 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/