From: sos AT prospect DOT com DOT ru (Sergey Okhapkin) Subject: RE: Possible Bug in Pipes with Win95 28 Oct 1997 00:32:40 -0800 Message-ID: <01BCE392.4012B730.cygnus.gnu-win32@gater.krystalbank.msk.ru> To: "'gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com'" , "'David Devejian'" David Devejian wrote: > I am having trouble implementing pipes with win95, namely, the process reading the pipe does not see the EOF when the writing process closes the file. > > With plain cygwin32 b18, the program would sometimes blow-up, sometimes hang, and occassionally run correctly. With the installation of the coolview patches, the error is atleast consistent, the program hangs after all data has been read from the pipe, but never detects the EOF. > It's well known programmer's mistake :-) Close read end of pipe in the parent after fork(), and write end in the child. -- Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos Moscow, Russia Looking for a job. - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".