pipe broken by WSL?

Eliot Moss moss@cs.umass.edu
Thu May 2 16:26:00 GMT 2019


On 5/2/2019 11:37 AM, Stephen Carrier wrote:
> On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 11:20:59AM +0200, Thomas Wolff wrote:
>> Calling WSL seems to break pipe processing:
>>
>> (echo 1; echo 2) |
>> while read line
>> do
>>    echo $line
>>    wsl uname
>> done
> 
> I don't know about wsl, but could it be absorbing the standard input?
> What if "wsl uname" is replaced with "wsl uname < /dev/null" ?

You seem to be right; when I add < /dev/null as described, I get
the expected output.

Regards - Eliot

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