X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5084194.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 06:22:42 -0700 (PDT) From: prz To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: loop hanging MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-Sender: Guy DOT Przytula AT riziv DOT fgov DOT be X-Nabble-From: prz X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com I have a small program that executes a command and parses the output I can see that on many executions the program hangs. added some debug statements and could see it is at loop iteration that we hang sample code #!/cygdrive/c/Cygwin/bin/bash db2 list db directory | { while read DBREC do [[ ! -z $DEBUG ]] && echo "p6" statements.... [[ ! -z $DEBUG ]] && echo "p5" done } the last output before hang is always p5 Any idea/hint why this is occuring ? The executed command returns many lines. Best Regards, Guy Przytula -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/loop-hanging-tf1861486.html#a5084194 Sent from the Cygwin Users forum at Nabble.com. -- 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/