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Subject: cat < /dev/null fail.
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From: Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
Date: 31 Jul 1999 15:51:37 +0900
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Since the 199-Jul-17 snapshot, commands with redirection of the
standard input, such as `cat < /dev/null' have failed in the
notty mode on Win9x.

$ cat < /dev/null
    0       0 [main] C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\cat.exe 1002 spawn_guts: wait failed: nwait 3, pid 1002, winpid -231673, Win32 error 6
    0    4921 [main] cat 1002 spawn_guts: waitbuf[0] 0x1F 0
20653   25574 [main] cat 1002 spawn_guts: waitbuf[1] 0x12 = 0
$

I can't collect a strace log, because the strace command fails
as the following.

$ strace -o /tmp/strace.log cat < /dev/nul
    0       0 [main] C:\CYGNUS\CYGWIN~1\H-I586~1\BIN\strace.exe 1005 spawn_guts: wait failed: nwait 3, pid 1005, winpid -232277, Win32 error 6
    0    5059 [main] strace 1005 spawn_guts: waitbuf[0] 0x1F 0
12747   17806 [main] strace 1005 spawn_guts: waitbuf[1] 0x12 = 0
$
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  | AIST      Kazuhiro Fujieda <fujieda AT jaist DOT ac DOT jp>
  | HOKURIKU  School of Information Science
o_/ 1990      Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology