On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 20:46:11, Houder wrote: > On Wed, 3 Oct 2018 15:37:14, Ole Tange wrote: > > This works: > > > > $ mkfifo fifo > > $ echo > fifo & grep . fifo > > [1] 10232 > > [1]+ Done echo > fifo > > > > But this fails: > > > > $ echo > fifo & grep . < fifo > > [1] 11756 > > grep: (standard input): Invalid argument > > [1]+ Done echo > fifo > > > > I see the same behavior on MINGW, but I do not see the same behavior on GNU= > > /Linux.
My apologies. Did not read you post as careful as I should have the first time. You are correct: grep is in error here. (utilities from e.g. coreutils do not show this error in the context above) Regards, Henri -- 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
