On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:06:16PM -0800, Lawrence Mayer wrote: >>> Not yet. The bug is still present in the current snapshot >>> cygwin-inst-20081220.tar.bz2. Thanks for trying to fix it and for >>> responding to my post. > >On 081222 10:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Too bad. Since I can't duplicate the problem it will be difficult to >>fix it. > >Have you tried running the examples I provided in my original post >(with foo = ~ 5MB text file) on a DOS shell (cmd.exe)?
Yes. That's what I meant by "I can't duplicate the problem". >I suggest running each example (in a DOS shell) at least 10 times, >comparing the file sizes of foo and bar each time. On my system, size >of bar < size of foo roughly 25-75% of the time. I ran it, in a loop, thousands of times, throughout the day on Sunday. > I'm attaching foo, bar1, and bar2 from the above example (compressed with > 7zip). Urk. There was no need to spam thousands of people with something like this. If I needed the data I would have asked that you send it just to me. cgf -- 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/
