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 Subject: Re: pipe data form windows program to cygwin program From: bertrand marquis To: Bob Byrnes Cc: cygwin In-Reply-To: <20041027193737.BAA5AE55A@wildcard.curl.com> References: <20041027193737.BAA5AE55A@wildcard.curl.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Organization: SYSGO AG Message-Id: <1098945308.4204.1.camel@bma.sysgo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: 28 Oct 2004 08:35:08 +0200 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on donald.sysgo.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no version=2.63 X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.0.1.16; AVE: 6.28.0.12; VDF: 6.28.0.42; host: mailgate.sysgo.de) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id i9S6YLtR015982 Le mer 27/10/2004 à 21:37, Bob Byrnes a écrit : > > 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 > -- > Bob > > -- > 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/ > -- 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/