bug#16444: grep -r fails with "Bad file descriptor" for mingw-w64

Hi, I'm building grep 2.16 with mingw-w64, and it works (with color!) for grepping individual files, but not recursively: C:\Temp\gcc>build\src\grep --version build\src\grep (GNU grep) 2.16 Copyright (C) 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later

bug#16444: grep -r fails with "Bad file descriptor" for mingw-w64

citizen, but if you or someone else who understands what gnulib is doing here could investigate, that would be wonderful for everyone on Windows who uses grep. Thanks, STL -Original Message- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:egg...@cs.ucla.edu] Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:01 AM To: St

bug#28083: Two patches for grep on Windows, fixing directory recursion and leaking color

Hi Paul, Thanks for the reminder; this got buried in my todo list and I didn't get around to requesting the copyright assignment paperwork. I'd still like to get this patch in, so let's restart. I kept my branch around and the patch rebased cleanly (with a trivial merge to NEWS). I'll email the FS

bug#28083: Two patches for grep on Windows, fixing directory recursion and leaking color

I found that the copyright assignment process was more burdensome than I expected (in particular, the request for employer signoff), so I abandoned the attempt. Please go ahead and close this bug, if nobody wants to attempt to implement a fix from scratch. Thanks (and apologies for the delayed rep