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Re: B20: hang on pipe to grep


> The following causes B20 to hang on my WINNT box.  It may run for a
> while before hanging:
>
> % while true; do echo $PATH | grep bin; done

 yep, on Win98 the same things happens. Windows claims that bash causes
a illegal operation. I suppose bash is getting a stack overflow within
this infinity loop.

Regards,
Stipe

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Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de>
Cygwin Porting Project
Department of Economical Computer Science
University of Cologne, Germany
http://www-public.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de/~tolj




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