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On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:04:50PM +0200, Peter Keitler wrote:
>corinna wrote:
>>On Apr 27 11:21, Peter Keitler wrote:
>>I did and I could reproduce it.  Thanks for the testcase.  The fix I
>>applied looks certainly wierd, but it works for me.  Would you mind to
>>give the next snapshot a try which should be available in a couple of
>>minutes?
>
>Looks good, the new snapshot works for me. Thanks for the patch :-) What 
>was the reason? Race-condition or something like that?
>Have a nice day, I will leave the office now...

Best guess is that it is still this problem:

http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-patches/2004-q3/msg00079.html

(see subsequent discussion for why this wasn't a real solution)

which, AFAIK, remains as a problem today.

The latest snapshot just increases the size of a pipe buffer.  So, it
isn't a real fix, just a workaround.  There is still a problem lurking
there but fixing it isn't trivial.

cgf

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