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Re: Getting the pipe guard


On 5/21/06, Christopher Faylor wrote:

I've checked in a variation of the above plus some modifications to
pipe.cc which prevent some handle stomping and may make things work
better.

I see that your patch makes writepipe_exists non-inheritable. This means that if you pass a pipe to a windows process, which in turn passes it to another process, the writepipe_exists will be gone, and cygwin will think the pipe is closed, AFAICT. So something like: bash$ ls | cmd /c more will not work any more. I think... I can't check this, because I don't have access to old versions of windows where writepipe_exists is actually used.

Lev


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