From: Ian Roxborough <irox@redhat.com>
To: Gene Fodor <efodor@zworld.com>
Cc: sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: Upgrading windows SN broke grep!
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:09:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BA29F1E.262DDAE9@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4.1.20010914164746.00c49700@zmail>
Gene Fodor wrote:
> Well, I tried messing with my path a bit, but SN still could not find grep.
> I also noticed that hyper.exe seemed to be eating all my CPU time when I
> wasn't really trying to do anything. I have decided to downgrade to 4.52
> as I don't seem to have these problems with that version.
4.52 handles grep in a different way. 5.0 tries to avoid using a custom grep
by using GNU grep. This almost works (Format is broken), it has it's advantages
and it's disadvantages.
> Other things that I noticed are:
>
> The version of grep that I use in cygwin and SN seem to be the same (using
> --version both reported 2.2), although I did not do a binary diff.
Hmmmm, I can't remember if the custom changes (used by 4.x.x versions only)
is in the cygwin grep or has been removed.
> The message would alternatively say "bad file number" or some such.
Strange.
I would be interest to know why hyper.exe is using up all your process
time. That sounds like a nasty bug.
Ian.
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2001-09-14 15:54 Gene Fodor
2001-09-14 16:06 ` Ian Roxborough
2001-09-14 17:00 ` Gene Fodor
2001-09-14 17:09 ` Ian Roxborough [this message]
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