Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to smr on 4/16/2008 6:29 PM: Please don't top-post: http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#TOFU | Hi Christopher, is there currently an ETA for a release that would | include this fix (whether that's 1.5.25-xx, or 1.6/1.7)? In the classic open

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread smr xxxx
Hi Christopher, is there currently an ETA for a release that would include this fix (whether that's 1.5.25-xx, or 1.6/1.7)? I've been out of the loop for a long time, so apologies if this is a question you've been badgered with recently. Thanks, Steven On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 4:44 PM, Christoph

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 03:04:12PM -0700, smr wrote: >Thanks very much Eric and Corinna for the responses -- glad to hear >it's already fixed. FYI, this will even be fixed in the 1.5.25 series eventually. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread smr xxxx
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 on 4/14/2008 11:56 AM:

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 14:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Apr 16 06:23, Eric Blake wrote: > > According to smr 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

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Apr 16 06:23, Eric Blake wrote: > According to smr 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

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-16 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to smr 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

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-15 Thread smr xxxx
FWIW, a little non-Cygwin (VS2008) test app to display results from fstat(0,...) returns the same thing on XP and Vista Ent SP1: 0x2000 which means character special, and not regular. On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 3:23 PM, smr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've done some debugging of tail.exe on

Re: Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-15 Thread smr xxxx
I've done some debugging of tail.exe on XP (which works) and Vista Enterprise SP1 (which doesn't), and so far have found two differences when tailing output piped from another program: 1. S_ISREG (stats.st_mode) returns 0 on XP, but 1 on Vista (I haven't yet determined if this is an Enterprise-on

Tail not reading to end of input

2008-04-14 Thread smr xxxx
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. For other reasons, I've rebuilt my machine clean twice this weekend and have had this problem both times -- I