reading from pipes fails if working directory is on a removable drive

[Marco Atzeri]

On 29/04/2016 16:44, mihau wrote:
> On 29.04.2016 15:23, Marco Atzeri wrote:
>
>
>> In addition you can run
>>
>>    strace -o pipe.strace cat test.txt |head
>>
>> on fix and removable drive. May be will give some additional hint.
>
> exact same result as described in the original post

yes but you mentioned that the problem is only on the
removable drive so the two versions should be different
somewhere
;-)

>
>> To see if any program is injecting dll's on your system
>> you can also looks on /proc/self/maps
>>
>> $ cat /proc/self/maps | awk '{print $6}' |sort -u
>
> /c/WINDOWS/system32/kernel32.dll
> /c/WINDOWS/system32/locale.nls
> /c/WINDOWS/system32/ntdll.dll
> /c/WINDOWS/system32/sortkey.nls
> /c/WINDOWS/system32/sorttbls.nls
> /c/WINDOWS/system32/unicode.nls
> /usr/bin/cat.exe
> /usr/bin/cygiconv-2.dll
> /usr/bin/cygintl-8.dll
> /usr/bin/cygwin1.dll
> [cygwin-shared]
> [cygwin-user-shared]
> [heap]
> [procinfo]
> [shared-user-data]
> [stack
> [teb
> [win
>
> looks largely like your output, plus the stuff in square brackets at the
> end

I skipped them as not relevant.


>> I forgot one question :
>>   did your XP system ever worked with a cygwin installation ?
>
> yes, I've been using it (at least) for the past five years largely
> without any issues
>
>> I doubt latest cygwin changes broke XP, but may be it happens.
>
> at the end of the day I can still work with it, as long as working
> directory is on a fixed drive -
> it's just a little annoying
>
> anyway, many thanks for your help :)
> Michael
>

you are welcome
Marco


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