From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ian Roxborough To: Gene Fodor Cc: sourcenav@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: Upgrading windows SN broke grep! Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:09:00 -0000 Message-id: <3BA29F1E.262DDAE9@redhat.com> References: <4.1.20010914154031.00c45bc0@zmail> <4.1.20010914164746.00c49700@zmail> X-SW-Source: 2001-q3/msg00157.html 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.