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From: "Fekete Krisztian" <fkr0 AT mailbox DOT hu>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Sequential writes to stdout is messed up (Bash only?)
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:52:57 +0100
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Hi,

The problem can be demonstrated by executing the following in bash:

printf 1 > 1; while true; do cat 1; echo 2; done

Expected result would be an endless stream of 12-s:
12
12
...

The real result is something different - see below.

Executing
ksh -c 'printf 1 > 1; while true; do cat 1; echo 2; done'
gives the expected stream (pdksh).

BR,
Krisztian Fekete

PS.: 
My cygwin is up to date, running on Windows 2000.

cygwin/bash result:
12
12
12
12
12
12
2
112
12
12
2
2
12
112
12
2
1112
2
2
1112
12
2
2
12
12
1112
...




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