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 Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 21:40:59 -0701 From: Jos Backus To: fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cat: snapshot 20040409 cures problem Message-ID: <20040415044121.GA87332@lizzy.catnook.com> Reply-To: jos@catnook.com References: <200404120609.i3C69xUv043976@gdead.mooseriver.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200404120609.i3C69xUv043976@gdead.mooseriver.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:06:21AM +0100, fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net wrote: > The current cygwin-1.5.9 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 no coincidence of names. This was reported earlier at > http://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. Thanks Fergus, for letting me know I wasn't the only one seeing this. What still puzzles me is that when I rebuilt cat from scratch I was unable to reproduce this problem. Cheers, Jos > Fergus -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Sunnyvale, CA _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ jos at catnook.com _/_/ _/_/_/ require 'std/disclaimer' -- 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/