From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <10110120325.AA19848@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: 4NT pipe problems [was Re: First round of XP tests]
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 22:25:26 -0500 (CDT)
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> > From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
> > Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2001 16:30:53 -0500 (CDT)
> > 
> > I can reproduce this problem under 4NT, but it isn't XP 
> > specific.  Under my NT 4 system, any pipe with djgpp images
> > seems to hang 4NT.
> [...]
> > This looks very much like a 4NT bug, and doesn't look XP specific.
> 
> Agreed.  Something for the next release of the FAQ, I guess...
> 
> Thanks for looking into this.

More interesting information.  If the second image in the pipe does
not use the pipe (such as djecho hi | djecho low) it does not hang.
Dev info on handle zero when piped in 4nt shows 0 (a bogus value
as expected).  I suspect some operation we are doing on this pipe
is causing us to hang (something in fstat?)