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Re: Tail not reading to end of input

On Apr 16 06:23, Eric Blake wrote:
> According to smr xxxx on 4/14/2008 11:56 AM:
> | Hi, I've just rebuilt my machine and done a clean install of the
> | latest Cygwin, and am having a problem with tail.  I'm wanting to know
> | whether this is a known issue before digging deeper.
>
> Not known to me, but I (thankfully) don't use Vista.

I can reproduce this problem on Windows 2008.  Pipes created by cmd on
Vista/2008 are for some reason not recognized as pipes when using Cygwin
1.5.25-11.  This problem does not occur with the upcoming Cygwin 1.7.0
so it's fixed in CVS, apparently.


Corinna

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