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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 17:59:12 -0500
To: Michele Liberi <mliberi AT hotmail DOT com>
Cc: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: B20.1++ select bug
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In-Reply-To: <20000126153524.41585.qmail@hotmail.com>; from mliberi@hotmail.com on Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 07:35:24AM -0800

On Wed, Jan 26, 2000 at 07:35:24AM -0800, Michele Liberi wrote:
>I already appended this problem at the mailing list a few days ago. I was 
>told to update my system at the latest cygwin1.dll available in the snapshot 
>area. It didn't help. That's why I'm sending this help request again. I also 
>tryed to upgrade the gcc compiler to 2.95.2 and recompile the program.
>
>The problem is simple: 'select' hangs (do not return) when reading from a 
>pipe and the child process exit.

Sorry.  It is a Windows limitation.  Windows does not always let the other
end of a pipe know when one end disappears.

This may be fixed in a future snapshot but for now it is broken.

cgf

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