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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 1999 12:48:04 -0400
To: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Cc: cygwin-developers AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: cat < /dev/null fail.
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In-Reply-To: <s1soggtfh1i.fsf@jaist.ac.jp>; from Kazuhiro Fujieda on Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 03:51:37PM +0900

This should be fixed in tonight's snapshot.  Thanks for reporting it.
This is a manifestation of a problem that has been plaguing me since
April.  This easily reproducible test case allowed me to track down
a problem which was causing random handles to be closed.

I did notice while debugging this that strace -f hangs on Windows 95.
If anyone has any insight into why, I'd be interested in hearing about
it.

cgf

On Sat, Jul 31, 1999 at 03:51:37PM +0900, Kazuhiro Fujieda wrote:
>Since the 199-Jul-17 snapshot, commands with redirection of the
>standard input, such as `cat < /dev/null' have failed in the
>notty mode on Win9x.
>
>$ cat < /dev/null
>    0       0 [main] C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\cat.exe 1002 spawn_guts: wait failed: nwait 3, pid 1002, winpid -231673, Win32 error 6
>    0    4921 [main] cat 1002 spawn_guts: waitbuf[0] 0x1F 0
>20653   25574 [main] cat 1002 spawn_guts: waitbuf[1] 0x12 = 0
>$
>
>I can't collect a strace log, because the strace command fails
>as the following.
>
>$ strace -o /tmp/strace.log cat < /dev/nul
>    0       0 [main] C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\strace.exe 1005 spawn_guts: wait failed: nwait 3, pid 1005, winpid -232277, Win32 error 6
>    0    5059 [main] strace 1005 spawn_guts: waitbuf[0] 0x1F 0