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Re: Issue with 20111222 snapshot
On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 08:25:40AM -0500, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>On 7 January 2012 01:21, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Fri, Jan 06, 2012 at 01:57:36PM -0500, Chris Sutcliffe wrote:
>>>Sigh... ?it seems to be an issue with the CVS HEAD mksh I'm testing,
>>>bash behaves as expected.
>>
>> You sure it isn't a regression though? ?There has been a lot of work
>> in the pipe section of code (which seems to always be the case).
>
>It does actually seem to be a regression. Testing with mksh 40c and
>Cygwin 1.7.9 works as expected, testing with mksh 40c and the 20111222
>snapshot breaks. The interesting thing is that bash works fine, so it
>seems to be specific to some interaction between mksh and the
>snapshot.
>
>To recreate the issue, using mksh 40c:
>
>$ touch test.out
>$ tail -f test.out | grep something
>Ctrl+C
>
>The Ctrl+C has no affect. The only way I can get out of the tail is
>to kill it from a separate terminal window. I've remembered to attach
>the cygcheck output this time.
>
>If it would be helpful, I can start testing with different snapshots
>to see if I can narrow down which snapshot introduced the issue.
>Since this is 100% reproducible using mksh for me, hopefully you'll be
>able to recreate the issue.
I can reproduce this using the release version of mksh. It doesn't seem
to be related to my pipe changes but I'll try to fix it ASAP.
cgf
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