On Tue, Nov 08, 2005 at 04:17:41PM -0800, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote: > Using 20051108, I just saw failures twice in tests of the perl binding > for cygwin32_winpid_to_pid, but no failure on every try since. The > test looks like: > > my $catpid = open my $cat, "|cat" or die "Couldn't cat: $!"; > open my $ps, "ps|" or die "Couldn't do ps: $!"; > my ($catwinpid) = map /^.\s+$catpid\s+\d+\s+\d+\s+(\d+)/, <$ps>; > close($ps); > > is(Cygwin::winpid_to_pid($catwinpid), $catpid, "winpid to pid"); > is(Cygwin::pid_to_winpid($catpid), $catwinpid, "pid to winpid"); > close($cat); > > in perl, where Cygwin::winpid_to_pid internally just calls > cygwin32_winpid_to_pid. I'm not able to think of any way in which > system load or a race could cause this failure. Any suggestions?
Hmm, I thought I had ruled out exec() of cat failing, but now I don't think so; probably that's what it is, so please disregard this message. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/