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Re: B20: hang on pipe to grep
- To: Stipe Tolj <tolj at uni-duesseldorf dot de>, sfavor at corridor dot com
- Subject: Re: B20: hang on pipe to grep
- From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 11:20:36 -0800 (PST)
- Cc: gnu-win32 at cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: earnie_boyd at yahoo dot com
---Stipe Tolj <tolj@uni-duesseldorf.de> 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
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