hello, came across this today on a fresh (2 days old) installation of cygwin x86
$ cat test.txt | head 3 [main] head (3348) C:\tools\cygwin\bin\head.exe: *** fatal error - MapViewOfFileEx '(null)'(0x5DC), Win32 error 6. Terminating. Segmentation fault reading from pipes works fine if working directory is a local drive or a UNC path, but this happens if the working directory is removable drive. I tried with/on various devices and it happens on all removable drives, regardless of the filesystem (NTFS or FAT32) also, 'head' is just an example; the same error comes up when trying to use grep, sed or gawk (haven't tested with others yet). does anybody know what could be causing this? thank you, Michael -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple