From: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com (Earnie Boyd) Subject: Re: B20: hang on pipe to grep 20 Nov 1998 04:52:42 -0800 Message-ID: <19981119192036.4498.rocketmail.cygnus.gnu-win32@send101.yahoomail.com> Reply-To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii To: Stipe Tolj , sfavor AT corridor DOT com Cc: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com ---Stipe Tolj wrote: > > > The following causes B20 to hang on my WINNT box. It may run for a > > while before hanging: How _LONG_ is _a_while_? > > > > % while true; do echo $PATH | grep bin; done > > yep, on Win98 the same things happens. Windows claims that bash causes > a illegal operation. I suppose bash is getting a stack overflow within > this infinity loop. > I've run it on NT 3.51 for about 15 minutes without it hanging, I finally C-c the process. uname -a CYGWIN_NT-3.51 BCMHCF01 20.0 (0.1/1/1) -11-8 11:59:08 i586 unknown echo $CYGWIN notty nobinmode notitle == - \\||// -------------------o0O0--Earnie--0O0o------------------- -- earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com -- -- http://www.freeyellow.com/members5/gw32/index.html -- ----------------------ooo0O--O0ooo---------------------- PS: Newbie's, you should visit my page. _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".