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From: Rolf Campbell <rcampbell AT tropicnetworks DOT com>
Subject: Re: Weird wget behaviour
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 11:27:26 -0400
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Marko Daris wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I'm using cygwin's wget (1.8.2) to mirror some web sites... I found an
> url which stops (cygwins) wget:
> wget http://www.uga.edu/ethnobot/Con.html
> 
> First the behaviour was that when I run the command some parts of this
> page were dumped on standard output (note: I don't have a .wgetrc file)
> which is very strange since wget only outputs progress/statistics and
> not the downloaded page... Wget did not finish but hanged forrever (did
> not notice any cpu load). 
> 
> I then thought it was a cygwin bug and reinstalled cygwin completely (10
> Apr 2003). Now what happens is that there is no ouput but the command
> hangs as before - it never returns.
> 
> I did a crosscheck on linux (debian) with wget 1.8.1 and the page is
> downloaded as expected and wget terminates. I also checked on solaris
> 2.6 wget 1.8.2 and works ok. 
> 
> I suspect the problem is somewhere in cygwin.... 
> 
> I'm worried that this could be some buffer overrun (because of the
> behaviour) or something in the realization of cygwin sockets. 
> 
> Let me know...
> 
> Best regards, 
> 
> 				Marko

Oh, oh, I think I know what it is!  I bet it's because basename of the 
local filename is called "CON".  That's a reserved word in Windows.  It 
means console.

Not a cygwin bug, a windows feature.



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