RE: Data streams being treated as files in Cygwin

2006-05-11 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 11 May 2006 16:11, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > > > >> On 11 May 2006 16:00, Igor Peshansky wrote: > >> > >>> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > >> > Cygwin's file handling relies on the underlying facili

RE: Data streams being treated as files in Cygwin

2006-05-11 Thread Dave Korn
On 11 May 2006 16:11, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > >> On 11 May 2006 16:00, Igor Peshansky wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: >> Cygwin's file handling relies on the underlying facilities of the Windows O/S, for the most part. >>>

RE: Data streams being treated as files in Cygwin

2006-05-11 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 11 May 2006 16:00, Igor Peshansky wrote: > > > On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > > >> Cygwin's file handling relies on the underlying facilities of the > >> Windows O/S, for the most part. > > > > Yes, and that leads to some funny behavior -- see

RE: Data streams being treated as files in Cygwin

2006-05-11 Thread Dave Korn
On 11 May 2006 16:00, Igor Peshansky wrote: > On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: >> Cygwin's file handling relies on the underlying facilities of the >> Windows O/S, for the most part. > > Yes, and that leads to some funny behavior -- see below. > Interestingly enough: > > $ echo "BLAH" >

RE: Data streams being treated as files in Cygwin

2006-05-11 Thread Igor Peshansky
On Thu, 11 May 2006, Dave Korn wrote: > On 11 May 2006 15:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > There seems to a problem on how the data streams are handled in > > Cygwin. Cygwin is treating a data stream as a file which should not be > > the case. > > Cygwin's file handling relies on the und

RE: Data streams being treated as files in Cygwin

2006-05-11 Thread Dave Korn
On 11 May 2006 15:17, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There seems to a problem on how the data streams are handled in >Cygwin. Cygwin is treating a data stream as a file which should not > be the case. Cygwin's file handling relies on the underlying facilities of the Windows O/S, for

RE: Data streams being treated as files in Cygwin

2006-05-11 Thread Richard Campbell
Please follow the reporting guidelines from http://cygwin.com/problems.html (you have not provided any information about your cygwin version, os versions, or anything else). Note that cygwin is a volunteer-based GPL project, and as such, the only way a patch will be provided is if one of the volun

Data streams being treated as files in Cygwin

2006-05-11 Thread Vishwanath_Karthik
Hi, There seems to a problem on how the data streams are handled in Cygwin. Cygwin is treating a data stream as a file which should not be the case. Following are the steps followed to create and access a data stream using cygwin shell in Windows environment. Sh-3.1$ ech