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Subject:	Re: [1.7] Pipes intermittently lose data on Cygwin 1.7
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 10:31:50AM -0800, Lawrence Mayer wrote:
>> On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 12:31:26PM -0800, Lawrence Mayer wrote:
>>> This bug appears specific to Cygwin 1.7 pipes on Win32 DOS (cmd.exe or
>>> command.exe). Cygwin 1.7 pipes on bash 3.2.48-21 or zsh 4.3.9-1 seem to
>>> work fine.
>
>
> On 081222 09:31, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> This may be fixed in the current Cygwin snapshot.  I think I closed up a
>> couple of race conditions there.
>>
>> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>>
>> cgf
>
> Not yet. The bug is still present in the current snapshot 
> cygwin-inst-20081220.tar.bz2. Thanks for trying to fix it and for 
> responding to my post.

Too bad.  Since I can't duplicate the problem it will be difficult to
fix it.

It would be helpful if you provided more information like the cygcheck
information requested in http://cygwin.com/problems.html.  It would also
be interesting to see the actual file sizes of foo and bar from your
example.  If they always vary in a consistent way that would be a clue.

cgf

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