Message-Id: <200404120618.i3C6IJsc006442@delorie.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Reply-To: From: To: Cc: Subject: cat: problem cured in snapshot 20040409 Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 07:14:24 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UoD-Spam-Score: -2.1 (--) X-UoD-Spam-Report: -------------------------------------------------- This message has been scanned by a SpamAssassin installation on the spam checking server hughnew at the University of Dundee. Content analysis details: (-2.1 hits, 5.0 required) 0.2 NO_REAL_NAME From: does not include a real name -4.9 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] 2.7 SUBJ_HAS_UNIQ_ID Subject contains a unique ID X-UoD-Scan-Signature: f90e409be92b202c9976479b4cc982a2 Note-from-DJ: This may be spam The current cygwin1-1.5.9.dll and snapshots up to 20040406 have exhibited an intermittent problem with cat: the error msg "input file is output file" has been presented during a long sequence cat f.1 f.2 f.3 ... f.n > f.target when there is in fact no coincidence of names. This was reported earlier at //www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2004-03/msg01211.html (also with 1.5.9). The problem seems to depend in some subtly inexpressible way (otherwise I would have sent a test case) on the contents of f.1 .. f.n and the name of f.target. Well, at least with the examples I have tried (many) this problem is cured with snapshot 20040409. And with 20040411. Thank you. Fergus -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/