Pipes bug when spawning non-cygwin processes

[Takashi Yano]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2020 14:24:38 -0500
Edward Lam wrote:
> I'm noticing a different problem with pipes that isn't fixed even in the
> latest 2020-02-12 cygwin1.dll snapshot. When a native graphical Windows
> process is launched (in the foreground without & in the command line) from
> mintty/bash, the STARTUPINFO structure for the child Windows process
> correctly has the STARTF_USESTDHANDLES bit set into info.dwFlags BUT both
> info.hStdInput and info.hStdOutput handles are 0, only info.hStdError is
> assigned to a handle. So in the older cygwin versions, this application's
> printf() calls go out to the shell as desired but not anymore.

Could you please provide a simple test case?

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Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>

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