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Bash bug? - piped loops using builtin echo and stdout
- From: Stuart Brady <sbrady at ntlworld dot com>
- To: Cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 15:54:59 +0100 (BST)
- Subject: Bash bug? - piped loops using builtin echo and stdout
With bash, is the behaviour of "while( true ); do echo foo; /bin/echo
bar; done | cat" defined? Is it reasonable for me to expect to see
"foo", "bar", "foo", "bar", and so on? With an interactive bash, this
isn't what happens when I actually type the command in (i.e. sourcing
or executing a script works fine). It only starts going wrong at around
the 12th iteration. I can't see anything in the archives, and STFW
didn't help either. Can anyone else reproduce this?
I'm using Win2k with Cygwin 1.3.10-1 and bash 2.05a-3. This also occurs
on Win98 with the same versions of Cygwin and bash, but does not occur
on Red Hat 7.2 with bash 2.05-8, nor does it occur on Red Hat 7.0 with
bash 2.04-11. Should I post the output of cygcheck -s -r -v here, since
I'm not sure that this is even a bug, and am reluctant to spam people?
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Stuart Brady
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