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From: "Bob Byrnes" <byrnes AT curl DOT com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:37:37 -0400
In-Reply-To: <1098879666.4197.4.camel@bma.sysgo.com> from bertrand marquis (Oct 27,  2:21pm)
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Subject: Re: pipe data form windows program to cygwin program
Message-Id: <20041027193737.BAA5AE55A@wildcard.curl.com>

> I'm writing a program which need to send data to a cygwin program using
> a pipe on the stdin (actually data to compress using gzip).
> 
> All is working well but at the end of the program when i close the pipe
> it seems that gzip doesn't see that the pipe has been closed and so it
> stay open.

Are you *sure* that you have closed *all* of the write handles to the pipe?
If any write handles remain open, then EOF won't be delivered to the
read side of the pipe.

> I kind of think there must be something with windows<->cygwin EOF but i
> can't find out what.
> 
> Is anyone has an idea ?

If you can provide a (very) simple test case that exhibits allegedly
incorrect behavior, that would be helpful.

--
Bob

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