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Subject: Re: pipe data form windows program to cygwin program
From: bertrand marquis <bertrand DOT marquis AT sysgo DOT com>
To: Bob Byrnes <byrnes AT curl DOT com>
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Le mer 27/10/2004 à 21:37, Bob Byrnes a écrit :
> > 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 think i did, but even if i didn't the fact that the program exit
normally will close all open handles under windows,won't it ?



> > 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.
> 

i will try to do this as soon as possible, thanks for help

bertrand

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