Cygwin piping misbehaviour

Paul Sokolovsky paul-ml@is.lg.ua
Mon Mar 13 11:05:00 GMT 2000


Hello Chris,

Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com> wrote:

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>>      Now question: why cygwin passes that silently? To my
>>understanding, that sh who doesn't report termination by SIGPIPE. I
>>have the same with both bash and ash. B20.1 on 95 and NT.

CF> You're a programmer, right?  And you have source code available...

    Nice answer. Yes, I can dig source, find cause, and even submit
patch. I however doubt it would be accepted, since it's possible that
that behaviour is by design (or by specification - after all, my
Linux installation is not very recent). That returns us to original
question. If it annoyed you, sorry.


CF> cgf



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