bash pipeline exit code - possible race condition?

[Larry Hall (Cygwin)]

On 07/29/2009 01:16 AM, David Antliff wrote:
> I've noticed a strange problem with bash pipelines in Cygwin that
> might indicate some sort of race condition. I cannot reproduce the
> problem on a Linux system, but it seems easy to reproduce in Cygwin.

<snip>

> I am running Cygwin on Windows XP (service pack 3).
>
> $ uname -srv
> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 1.5.25(0.156/4/2) 2008-06-12 19:34

Want to try the test again with the upcoming Cygwin 1.7 release?
<http://cygwin.com/#beta-test>  1.5.x is will be replaced by it very
shortly so unless the problem is still visible in 1.7, it's not likely
to spark much investigation.  Just FYI.

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