RE: pipe handling errors

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

From: Christopher Faylor
>On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 07:17:48PM +0000, Nellis, Kenneth wrote:
>>From: Nellis, Kenneth
>><snip>
>>> Well, I'm getting different results with the latest snapshot. 
>>> Instead of getting the error message, I'm getting a hang for maybe a minute before it continues.
>>> 
>>> I used the following command to encourage a failure:
>>> 
>>> clear; for f in $(find */Debug -name '*Subsystem'); do echo === $f 
>>> ===; strings $f | grep '\.cpp$' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n; done
>><snip>
>>
>>Thought it might be useful to add that I can fairly easily get the same 
>>minute-long hang with a simpler command:
>>
>>Cygwin64> strings *Subsystem | wc -l
>
>What's your cwd when you run this command?

Well, it *was* on a network drive, but that appears to be irrelevant:

Cygwin64> date; seq 10000 | wc -l; date
Tue Jul 15 16:31:52 EDT 2014
10000
Tue Jul 15 16:32:52 EDT 2014
Cygwin64> pwd
/home/knellis
Cygwin64> cygpath -w $PWD
C:\cygwin\home\knellis
Cygwin64> uname -srvmo
CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.31s(0.273/5/3) 20140715 15:34:37 x86_64 Cygwin
Cygwin64>

--Ken Nellis

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