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Re: [bug] cygwin-1.5.6-1: corruption on tar | bzip2 > file.tar.bz2 RESOLVED


On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:52:17AM +0100, Ilya Pobelov wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote on 25.01.2004 18:05:
>>If I were you, I would be comparing the difference between the working
>>and non-working cases, like is the file size different?
>
>Thank you very much for a good question, it really helps to resolve my
>issue.  The problem seems to be in <LF> -> <CR><LF> (0A -> 0D 0A)
>convertion in pipe after bzip2, which occurs _only if_ option "Default
>Text File Type" = Dos.  I didn't test any other utilities except cat,
>when it doesn't happend (=everything fine).

This should be "fixed" in the latest snapshot but it opens a larger issue
with how threads and stdio interoperate.  I'm afraid that I'll probably
end up releasing 1.5.7 with some interesting issues regarding how fopen
interacts with pthreads.

cgf

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