Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:18:44 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Error piping data through a cygwin command using rsh (write system call fails)
Message-ID: <20050609081844.GE11065@calimero.vinschen.de>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
References: <BAY1-F1321D154B596CBC10A9EABA6FD0 AT phx DOT gbl>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
In-Reply-To: <BAY1-F1321D154B596CBC10A9EABA6FD0@phx.gbl>
User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i

On Jun  8 14:44, Johnny B. Goode wrote:
> We're using a windows 2000 based server running cygwin as a development 
> environment for porting our AIX-based software to the Windows platform.
> 
> When we extract the compiled programs, we connect to the cygwin server 
> using rsh, passing a file list as input, returning a gzip'ed CPIO archive 
> as output using a command like:
> 
> 	cat filelist | rsh cygserver -l logname "cd /directory ; cpio -oc | 
> 	gzip" > output.cpio.gz
> 
> This is executed from an AIX server (running AIX 5.3), effectively packing 
> files from the filelist in a CGZ-archive that ends up back on the AIX 
> server. The problem is, however, that gzip on the cygwin server terminates 
> prematurely with the error "gzip: stdout: Invalid argument".

Did you try gzip -c ?


Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen                  Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to
Cygwin Project Co-Leader          mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Red Hat, Inc.

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/