GNU coreutils does not work on Cygwin because of freopen() ?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

dazjorz wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I'm not very great with the inner workings of GNU or Cygwin libc, so 
> please bear with me if I make any mistakes or misunderstandings.
> 
> I was trying to get GNU coreutils to work on Cygwin. Maybe this seems 
> weird to you guys, because Cygwin has coreutils, but there are a few 
> reasons:
> - Cygwin didn't have md5sum, GNU coreutils did (and I need md5sum)

<http://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-grep.cgi?grep=bin%2Fmd5sum>

Did you miss this?

> - It should work, and "Because I Can" is always a valid reason in UNIX 
> world
> - I'm trying to bootstrap Debian on Cygwin, and coreutils from Debian is 
> my first try; getting coreutils from Cygwin may be done later.
> 
> However, I noticed there are some very weird bugs happening. See for 
> example, this bug in cat (don't look at the title of the page, I blamed 
> bash first)
> http://paster.dazjorz.com/?p=3845

Your example works fine for me with the latest coreutils.  Perhaps you're
working with a buggy locally built version?

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