Hello,
I have all the packages up to date, and also the last Cygwin snapshot:
jupiter% cat /proc/version | tr -d '\100'
CYGWIN_NT-5.1 version 1.7.10s(0.254/5/3) (cgf) (gcc version 4.3.4 20090804
(release) 1 (GCC) ) 20111030 04:51:42
jupiter%
I have compiled the last upstream tcsh (tcsh-6.17.06.tar.gz) with all default
options.
and installed the newly compiled tcsh into /bin/tcsh-6.17.06 for testing.
I can now experience the following strange message:
jupiter% /usr/bin/env -i PATH=/usr/bin /bin/tcsh-6.17.06 -fc 'set bar = `echo
foo | wc -c`'
2 [proc_waiter] wc 2840 proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe
0x708, Win32 error 6
jupiter%
wc seems to be able to be replaced by anything else, with the same message:
jupiter% /usr/bin/env -i PATH=/usr/bin /bin/tcsh-6.17.06 -fc 'set bar = `echo
foo | cat`'
330 [proc_waiter] cat 3912 proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe
0x708, Win32 error 6
jupiter%
And the result seems ok:
jupiter% /usr/bin/env -i PATH=/usr/bin /bin/tcsh-6.17.06 -fc 'set bar = `echo
foo | tr o a`; echo $bar'
243 [proc_waiter] tr 2892 proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe
0x708, Win32 error 6
faa
jupiter%
On the other hand, the following variations don't produce the message:
/usr/bin/env -i PATH=/usr/bin /bin/tcsh-6.17.06 -fc 'set bar = `/usr/bin/echo
foo | wc -c`'
/usr/bin/env -i PATH=/usr/bin /bin/tcsh-6.17.06 -fc 'echo foo | wc -c'
/usr/bin/env -i PATH=/usr/bin /bin/tcsh -fc 'set bar = `echo foo | wc -c`'
When the number of pipes increases, the result is not so easily predictable (or
reproducible):
jupiter% /usr/bin/env -i PATH=/usr/bin /bin/tcsh-6.17.06 -fc 'set bar = `cat
/proc/version | cat | wc -c`'
jupiter% /usr/bin/env -i PATH=/usr/bin /bin/tcsh-6.17.06 -fc 'set bar = `cat
/proc/version | cat | cat | wc -c`'
3 [main] wc 260 child_info_spawn::reattach_children: couldn't duplicate
parent 0x6A0 handles for forked children after exec, Win32 error 6
177 [main] wc 260 _pinfo::dup_proc_pipe: DuplicateHandle failed, pid 2884,
hProcess 0x708, wr_proc_pipe 0x700, Win32 error 5
270 [main] wc 260 child_info_spawn::reattach_children: couldn't duplicate
parent 0x658 handles for forked children after exec, Win32 error 6
345 [main] wc 260 _pinfo::dup_proc_pipe: DuplicateHandle failed, pid 2720,
hProcess 0x6F8, wr_proc_pipe 0x6F0, Win32 error 5
(there seems to be another effect)
jupiter% /usr/bin/env -i PATH=/usr/bin /bin/tcsh-6.17.06 -fc 'set bar = `cat
/proc/version | cat | cat | cat | wc -c`'
1 [proc_waiter] wc 2908 proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe
0x6F8, Win32 error 6
jupiter% /usr/bin/env -i PATH=/usr/bin /bin/tcsh-6.17.06 -fc 'set bar =
`/usr/bin/echo foo | cat | wc -c`'
1 [proc_waiter] wc 3908 proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe
0x708, Win32 error 6
Compilation of tcsh under GCC-4.5.3 (Cygwin default) or GCC-4.6.2 has the same
effect.
Use of tcsh-6.17.04, tcsh-6.17.05 and tcsh-6.17.06 all have the same effect.
But tcsh-6.17.00 (upstream) or tcsh-6.17.00.1-1 (patched by CV) do not exhibit
the message.
(i have currently no access to tcsh-6.17.01, tcsh-6.17.02 and tcsh-6.17.03)
The message appeared with the 2011-10-26 snapshot (was not there with the
2011-10-23 snapshot).
Of course, the decorations '/usr/bin/env -i PATH=/usr/bin /bin/tcsh-6.17.06
-fc' are not really
needed. If your shell is tcsh-6.17.06, the result is:
jupiter% echo `echo foo | wc -l`
5 [proc_waiter] wc 732 proc_waiter: error on read of child wait pipe
0x720, Win32 error 6
1
jupiter%
Is somebody able to reproduce this?
Regards,
Denis Excoffier.
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