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Subject: Re: New Win2K/XP bug report
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Mon, 4 Mar 2002 09:42:05 -0600 (CST)
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> Does the problem go away if you invoke the pipe via the Windows shell?

Yes, the problem only happens under Bash that has been reported.

> If so, we could change system.c and/or dosexec.c to do that on W2K.
> (That might lose long command lines, but losing the whole pipe is much 
> worse, I think ;-)

The problem only appears to happen if you are sending the output from
a Win32 executable to a DJGPP executable stdin.  DJGPP to DJGPP or Win32 
to console or Win32 to Win32 all seem to work OK.

That's a pretty ugly test.