Thanks very much Eric and Corinna for the responses -- glad to hear it's already fixed.
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:13 AM, Corinna Vinschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Apr 16 14:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > On Apr 16 06:23, Eric Blake wrote: > > > According to smr xxxx on 4/14/2008 11:56 AM: > > > | Hi, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the > > > | latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail. I'm wanting to know > > > | whether this is a known issue before digging deeper. > > > > > > Not known to me, but I (thankfully) don't use Vista. > > > > I can reproduce this problem on Windows 2008. Pipes created by cmd on > > Vista/2008 are for some reason not recognized as pipes when using Cygwin > > 1.5.25-11. This problem does not occur with the upcoming Cygwin 1.7.0 > > so it's fixed in CVS, apparently. > > The reason is that starting with Windows Vista/2008, anonymous pipes > don't have a filename attached to them, so that the call to > NtQueryObject in handle_to_fn fails with STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_INVALID. > This is handled gracefully for pipes in CVS, but not yet in 1.5.25-11. > > > > Corinna > > -- > Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to > Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com > Red Hat > > -- > 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/ > > -- 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/
