Re: 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-08-03 Thread Brian Ford
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Darryl Miles wrote: > Brian Ford wrote: > > Doesn't this explain the problem nicely? > > > > http://www.cygwin.com//ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q4/msg00018.html > > Yes that casts light on the problem. Did you get around to trying to > reverse the direction of the data flow through

Re: 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-08-03 Thread Lev Bishop
On 8/2/06, Darryl Mile: Okay you seem to have some understanding as to how and why it failed for the "unison" group of users. Do you think the commented out code is fixable in any so that all cases work correctly ? Iff you can come up with a way to distinguish the two situations: 1) blocking r

Re: 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-08-02 Thread Darryl Miles
Brian Ford wrote: On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Darryl Miles wrote: Doesn't this explain the problem nicely? http://www.cygwin.com//ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q4/msg00018.html Yes that casts light on the problem. Did you get around to trying to reverse the direction of the data flow through the pipe or an

Re: 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-08-02 Thread Brian Ford
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Darryl Miles wrote: > The problem at the moment is that Corinna would like someone to explain > how the NtQueryInformationFile() approach is broken (and me for that > matter). Doesn't this explain the problem nicely? http://www.cygwin.com//ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q4/msg00018.h

Re: 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-08-02 Thread Darryl Miles
Lev Bishop wrote: On 8/1/06, Darryl Miles wrote: I am still interested in tackling the whole situation but I do need to be furnished with a testcase to work with. I believe the original comeback by the group of users running "unison" should have insisted a testcase was produced by them to demo

Re: 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-08-02 Thread Lev Bishop
On 8/1/06, Darryl Miles wrote: I am still interested in tackling the whole situation but I do need to be furnished with a testcase to work with. I believe the original comeback by the group of users running "unison" should have insisted a testcase was produced by them to demonstrate the new bre

Re: 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-08-01 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
Saurabh Tendulkar wrote: I guess I must send this again since no one replied the first time. Actually, no. If you don't receive a response with your first inquiry, sending a copy of the first prefaced with an argument that you're repeating your plea isn't the right approach. It often leads

Re: 1.5.20(0.156/4/2) pipe hangs, dos files

2006-08-01 Thread Darryl Miles
Saurabh Tendulkar wrote: We have an older cygwin on another machine: CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.6(0.108/3/2), paste (textutils) 2.0.21, Gnu Awk 3.1.3, which runs absolutely fine. ulimit -p is 8 on both machines. Is this problem related to the select() code pipe problems. This is where the writability