redirect-append (>>) creates garbage-y file

[Csaba Raduly]

2010/3/9 William Lebow
> I've diagnosed this problem further. It is an interaction between cygwin and a security package called "Credant Guardian Shield" that my company installs on all of its laptops. I can't say specifically that it is a cygwin bug, but this bad behavior is not present in earlier versions.
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New entry to the BLODA ?

Thomas Wolff wrote:
> It would be interesting to check whether it only occurs if you append to a file from the command line or also if an application opens a file in append mode,

William, try this:

echo foo | tail -a test3.txt

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