pipe handling errors

["Nellis, Kenneth" <Kenneth dot Nellis at xerox dot com>]

When running a bash pipeline using the latest 64-bit packages, 
I occasionally get output like the following:

1479561950 [waitproc] -bash 10000 sig_send: error sending signal 20, pipe handle 0x2710, nb 132, packsize 0, Win32 error 109

That one was the result of: strings <binary file> | grep <pattern> | sort | uniq -c

Here's a different one that I got twice when sending "strings" 
output to "grep" and once sending "strings" output to "wc -l":

605884587 [main] -bash 10000 sig_send: error sending signal -66, pipe handle 0x2710, nb 132, packsize 0, Win32 error 0

I haven't found them to be repeatable.

I just tried on 32-bit Cygwin and got the following twice in a row, 
but not a third time, so I suspect a race condition.

      1 [main] -bash 9528 sig_send: error sending signal -34, pipe handle 0x2538, nb 152, packsize 0, Win32 error 0
25098461 [main] -bash 9528 sig_send: error sending signal -34, pipe handle 0x2538, nb 152, packsize 0, Win32 error 0

The initial "1" on the first one looks interesting. 
This one also was: strings <binary file> | grep <pattern>

The common element in all these examples was generating the pipeline data
with "strings". I don't recall whether strings was always involved or not.

Not a big concern because the generated output looks correct, 
but a tad annoying. Thought it worth reporting.

FWIW, on 64-bit:
Cygwin64> uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 COR900GFY5 1.7.30(0.272/5/3) 2014-05-23 10:36 x86_64 Cygwin
Cygwin64> cygcheck -f `which strings`
binutils-2.24.51-4
Cygwin64>

On 32-bit:
Cygwin32> uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 COR900GFY5 1.7.30(0.272/5/3) 2014-05-23 10:36 i686 Cygwin
Cygwin32> cygcheck -f `which strings`
binutils-2.24.51-4
Cygwin32>

--Ken Nellis

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