X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 14:49:48 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Tail not reading to end of input Message-ID: <20080416124948.GW23852@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <18310f490804141056y466fa051x4240d2a52d3286a9@mail.gmail.com> <4805EFCF.3030103@byu.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4805EFCF.3030103@byu.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com On Apr 16 06:23, Eric Blake wrote: > According to smr xxxx 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 me, but I (thankfully) don't use Vista. I can reproduce this problem on Windows 2008. Pipes created by cmd on Vista/2008 are for some reason not recognized as pipes when using Cygwin 1.5.25-11. This problem does not occur with the upcoming Cygwin 1.7.0 so it's fixed in CVS, apparently. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/