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Re: pipe data form windows program to cygwin program
- From: bertrand marquis <bertrand dot marquis at sysgo dot com>
- To: Bob Byrnes <byrnes at curl dot com>
- Cc: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: 28 Oct 2004 08:35:08 +0200
- Subject: Re: pipe data form windows program to cygwin program
- Organization: SYSGO AG
- References: <20041027193737.BAA5AE55A@wildcard.curl.com>
Le mer 27/10/2004 Ã 21:37, Bob Byrnes a Ãcrit :
> > I'm writing a program which need to send data to a cygwin program using
> > a pipe on the stdin (actually data to compress using gzip).
> >
> > All is working well but at the end of the program when i close the pipe
> > it seems that gzip doesn't see that the pipe has been closed and so it
> > stay open.
>
> Are you *sure* that you have closed *all* of the write handles to the pipe?
> If any write handles remain open, then EOF won't be delivered to the
> read side of the pipe.
>
i think i did, but even if i didn't the fact that the program exit
normally will close all open handles under windows,won't it ?
> > I kind of think there must be something with windows<->cygwin EOF but i
> > can't find out what.
> >
> > Is anyone has an idea ?
>
> If you can provide a (very) simple test case that exhibits allegedly
> incorrect behavior, that would be helpful.
>
i will try to do this as soon as possible, thanks for help
bertrand
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