Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/10/17/21:06:30
On Fri, Oct 18, 2002 at 12:19:29AM +0200, Pavel Tsekov wrote:
>On Thu, 17 Oct 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:17:11PM +1300, Ross Smith wrote:
>> >If you take any command-line program that writes to stdout -- plain old
>> >"hello world" will do fine -- compile it with gcc, and run it several
>> >times with >> somefile, then you get a file containing several copies
>> >of "hello world", as you'd expect. But if you compile it with Visual
>> >C++ instead, then instead of appending to the file, it just overwrites
>> >the beginning of the file every time.
>>
>> Should be fixed in cvs. I'm generating a snapshot.
>>
>> The problem was caused by this change from Pavel Tsekov:
>>
>> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2002-q3/msg00064.html
>>
>> I had a nagging feeling that this was a problem when it was checked in.
>>
>> My fix still keeps this patch but it resets file pointers before execing
>> a new process. That seems to work.
>
>I should have been more careful. My mistake is that I didn't understand
>why the file pointer should be moved on open () back then. Removing this
>code fixed an "obivious" bug and seemed reasonable. Now as I looked at
>the code you've checked in dtable.cc, everything seems clear.
>
>Sorry :(
Hey, I wasn't pointing fingers! I should have made that very clear. I
approved the checkin and I should understand the code pretty thoroughly.
I should have remembered why the file pointer code was in open. I'm
glad that we did things this way. Your patch makes cygwin slightly
faster and I *think* that handling the problem in exec makes things even
more correct than they were prior to your patch.
cgf
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