X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <18310f490804161504x5cb32ec9vd22c9e6b60e95db9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:04:12 -0700 From: "smr xxxx" To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Tail not reading to end of input In-Reply-To: <20080416131300.GX23852@calimero.vinschen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <18310f490804141056y466fa051x4240d2a52d3286a9@mail.gmail.com> <4805EFCF.3030103@byu.net> <20080416124948.GW23852@calimero.vinschen.de> <20080416131300.GX23852@calimero.vinschen.de> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 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 wrote: > On Apr 16 14:49, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > 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. > > The reason is that starting with Windows Vista/2008, anonymous pipes > don't have a filename attached to them, so that the call to > NtQueryObject in handle_to_fn fails with STATUS_OBJECT_PATH_INVALID. > This is handled gracefully for pipes in CVS, but not yet in 1.5.25-11. > > > > 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/ > > -- 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/