On Mar 18 16:16, Matthew Kidd wrote:
> I upgraded to Cygwin 1.7.1 on a (64-bit) Windows Server 2003 and immediately
> ran into trouble. It seems that Perl can no longer shutdown pipes related to
> Cygwin executables. Here is some example code:
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> use strict;
>
> # my $fname = 'Y:\path\to\ratherbigfile.gz';
> my $fname = '/cygdrive/y/path/to/ratherbigfile.gz';
>
> open(FH, "gzip -dc $fname |") || die 'open failed.';
> for (1..4) { my $fline = <FH>; print $fline; }
>
> close(FH);
> print "done\n";
>
>
> Before Cygwin 1.7.1 this code ran fine. It printed out four lines, closed
> the pipe, and exited. But now it hangs at the close(FH) statement and the
> child gzip process maxes out a core continuing to uncompress the big file. I
> either have to kill the gzip process or the Perl process. This problem
> happens whether I use a Windows style file path or a Unix style file path.
> It doesn't matter if I use 32-bit or 64-bit Perl.
>
> If I replace the cygwin1.dll file from the 1.7.1 installation with an older
> version of cygwin1.dll from a different installation (specifically 1.5.25
> cr-0x5f1), the code above works fine (though I imagine mixing and matching
> DLL version is not a good long term solution).
Try the latest developer snapshot from http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
fixes your problem.
Corinna
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