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Re: cygwin 1.7.0-28: Broken pipe signal broken?


On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 09:48:14AM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 11:00:25PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:55:20PM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
>> >>Result on 1.5.25-15:
>> >>
>> >>$ ./testpipe | dd bs=1 count=1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
>> >>[SIGPIPE!]write = -1, errno = 32
>> >>
>> >>Result on 1.7.0-28:
>> >>
>> >>$ ./testpipe | dd bs=1 count=1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
>> >>write = 0, errno = 32
>> >
>> >Yawn.  I almost went to bed without remembering into this.
>> 
>> Yeah.  "remembering into"  I obviously am tired.  What are the
>> odds that this fix actually fixes the problem?
>> 
>
>It fixes the missing signal, but not the write() return value.
>
>Result with cygwin1-20080818.dll:
>
>$ ./testpipe | dd bs=1 count=1 >/dev/null 2>/dev/null
>[SIGPIPE!]write = 0, errno = 32
>
>Unfortunately, this makes things worse: bash now exits silently on
>$(...) commands, so 'bash --login' fails.

I think this is fixed now.  I spent a lot of time trying to get this
to work exactly like linux but Windows thwarted me.  It should now, at
least, behave like 1.5.*.

cgf

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