X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <49739D07.7020507@cygwin.com> Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 16:20:07 -0500 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20090101 Remi/2.0.0.19-1.fc8.remi Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.19 Mnenhy/0.7.5.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: GNU coreutils does not work on Cygwin because of freopen() ? References: <49738867.702@dazjorz.com> In-Reply-To: <49738867.702@dazjorz.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 dazjorz wrote: > Hey all, > > I'm not very great with the inner workings of GNU or Cygwin libc, so > please bear with me if I make any mistakes or misunderstandings. > > I was trying to get GNU coreutils to work on Cygwin. Maybe this seems > weird to you guys, because Cygwin has coreutils, but there are a few > reasons: > - Cygwin didn't have md5sum, GNU coreutils did (and I need md5sum) Did you miss this? > - It should work, and "Because I Can" is always a valid reason in UNIX > world > - I'm trying to bootstrap Debian on Cygwin, and coreutils from Debian is > my first try; getting coreutils from Cygwin may be done later. > > However, I noticed there are some very weird bugs happening. See for > example, this bug in cat (don't look at the title of the page, I blamed > bash first) > http://paster.dazjorz.com/?p=3845 Your example works fine for me with the latest coreutils. Perhaps you're working with a buggy locally built version? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 _____________________________________________________________________ A: Yes. > Q: Are you sure? >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email? -- 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/