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

Fri Apr 29 14:51:00 GMT 2016

On 29.04.2016 15:23, Marco Atzeri wrote:
> As next step, can you remove it ?
> Some can interfere also when disabled.

I did think about it for a second but actually that's not an option;
also it never interfered with cygwin or any other application.
> 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
> 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ドル}' |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 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
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