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Subject: Re: Bash issues many FSCTL_PIPE_PEEK operations?
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On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:23:36PM -0700, Gary Fritz wrote:
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>I just installed SysInternals' FileMon utility and have discovered all kinds of 
>unknown activity going on behind the scenes.  
>
>One that surprised me was Bash.  FileMon says that Bash is doing 90-100 
>FSCTL_PIPE_SEEK operations EVERY SECOND!  It does this even if Bash 
>is currently running a command, so there is no open prompt looking for input.  
>
>Is it *supposed* to do that??   

In any cygwin less than 1.7.x, yes.

cgf

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