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From: Ross Smith <rosss AT pharos DOT co DOT nz>
To: "'cygwin AT cygwin DOT com'" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: RE: File permission problems with new cygwin dll
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 08:23:14 +1300
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> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> 
> On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:17:11PM +1300, Ross Smith wrote:
> >If you take any command-line program that writes to stdout 
> -- plain old
> >"hello world" will do fine -- compile it with gcc, and run it several
> >times with >> somefile, then you get a file containing several copies
> >of "hello world", as you'd expect. But if you compile it with Visual
> >C++ instead, then instead of appending to the file, it just 
> overwrites
> >the beginning of the file every time.
> 
> Should be fixed in cvs.  I'm generating a snapshot.
> 
> The problem was caused by this change from Pavel Tsekov:
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2002-q3/msg00064.html
> 
> I had a nagging feeling that this was a problem when it was 
> checked in.
> 
> My fix still keeps this patch but it resets file pointers 
> before execing
> a new process.  That seems to work.

Thank you!

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