X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:40:17 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: [1.7] Pipes intermittently lose data on Cygwin 1.7 Message-ID: <20081222224017.GA24191@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <494CB77F DOT 4040403 AT i12 DOT com> <494D561E DOT 9060607 AT i12 DOT com> <20081222173111 DOT GD27364 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <494FDD16 DOT 4030903 AT i12 DOT com> <20081222184701 DOT GB23447 AT ednor DOT casa DOT cgf DOT cx> <494FF338 DOT 4020900 AT i12 DOT com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <494FF338.4020900@i12.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 12:06:16PM -0800, Lawrence Mayer wrote: >>> Not yet. The bug is still present in the current snapshot >>> cygwin-inst-20081220.tar.bz2. Thanks for trying to fix it and for >>> responding to my post. > >On 081222 10:47, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>Too bad. Since I can't duplicate the problem it will be difficult to >>fix it. > >Have you tried running the examples I provided in my original post >(with foo = ~ 5MB text file) on a DOS shell (cmd.exe)? Yes. That's what I meant by "I can't duplicate the problem". >I suggest running each example (in a DOS shell) at least 10 times, >comparing the file sizes of foo and bar each time. On my system, size >of bar < size of foo roughly 25-75% of the time. I ran it, in a loop, thousands of times, throughout the day on Sunday. > I'm attaching foo, bar1, and bar2 from the above example (compressed with > 7zip). Urk. There was no need to spam thousands of people with something like this. If I needed the data I would have asked that you send it just to me. cgf -- 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/