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On Feb  7 19:01, jojelino wrote:
> 2012-02-07 PM 3:49, Daniel Colascione 쓴 글:
> >On 2/6/12 8:35 PM, jojelino wrote:
> >>2012-02-06 AM 1:29, Corinna Vinschen 쓴 글:
> >>>Hi Cygwin friends and users,
> >>>
> >>
> >>C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>base64 oso|base64 -d -
> >>base64: write error: Bad file descriptor
> >>base64: write error
> >>
> >>C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>uname -a
> >>CYGWIN_NT-5.2 1.7.10s(0.259/5/3) 20120202 16:59:00 i686 Cygwin
> >>
> >>please check this problem.
> >
> >Worksforme after creating a file called "oso".
> 
>  (And if I don't have
> >such a file, the command fails in the expected way.)
> >
> sorry for confusion
> 
> rem make empty file
> C:\>touch boa
> 
> C:\>base64 boa|base64 -d -
> rem make non empty file
> C:\>echo blahblah >oso
> 
> C:\>base64 boa|base64 -d -
> 
> C:\>base64 boa|base64 -d -
> 
> C:\>base64 oso|base64 -d -
> blahblah
> 
> C:\>base64 oso|base64 -d -
> base64: write error: Bad file descriptor
> base64: write error

Looks like this happens if the pipe has not been created by a Cygwin
process (cmd.exe in this case).  For the time being, start that from a
real shell, like bash or tcsh.


Corinna

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