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Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 17:52:31 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: ash/NTserver I/O redirect problem
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On Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 12:31:57PM -0800, Andrew Chang wrote:
>
>I hope this is the right place to report cygwin bugs.
>
>We just tried to upgraded to  cygwin1.3.9
>
>It seems on NT/Server the support for the following shell synctax 
>is broken under some situation using ash.
>
>		prog >out_file 2>&1
>prog is a non-cygwin linked, win32 application)
>The problem is that the output is not redirected.
>The same scripts works fine on w2k and on NT/Workstation.
>
>I tried unsuccessfully to creat a minimum case for this. (sorry)
>So for now, consider this a "watch out" item.
>(It is reprodicable under the BitKeeper regression test", however.)

It is not inconceivable that this would fail depending on what
"out_file" is.

Stay with cygwin compiled binaries if you want things to work
reliably.

cgf

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