Re: File permission problems with new cygwin dll

[Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 03:17:11PM +1300, Ross Smith wrote:
>If you take any command-line program that writes to stdout -- plain old
>"hello world" will do fine -- compile it with gcc, and run it several
>times with >> somefile, then you get a file containing several copies
>of "hello world", as you'd expect. But if you compile it with Visual
>C++ instead, then instead of appending to the file, it just overwrites
>the beginning of the file every time.

Should be fixed in cvs.  I'm generating a snapshot.

The problem was caused by this change from Pavel Tsekov:

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin-cvs/2002-q3/msg00064.html

I had a nagging feeling that this was a problem when it was checked in.

My fix still keeps this patch but it resets file pointers before execing
a new process.  That seems to work.

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