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According to Dave on 4/21/2006 11:45 AM:
> I'm trying to get a mingw GUI application to pipe commands to cygwins
> bash by redirecting its stdin as described here
> <http://support.microsoft.com/?id=190351>.

Why not just spawn bash with command line arguments, and use the -c flag
to pass the commands as arguments rather than on stdin?

> Does anyone know what I can do to get bash to respond promptly? Or will
> this approach not work with bash?

It might not be bash's fault, but a general limitation of how cygwin
handles pipes from non-cygwin processes.  A simple test case is a
necessity if you expect help debugging this.

> GNU bash, version 3.00.16(14)-release (i686-pc-cygwin)

What about upgrading to bash 3.1, now that bash-3.1-5 is the current version?

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