From: Robert McGovern <tarasis@...>
Date: 2002-09-24T02:39:57+09:00
Subject: Re: don't understand cause of `sysread': Bad file descriptor (Errno::EBADF)

> As an experiment, I checked the latest source out of CVS and compiled it 
> under Cygwin. At the time of writting, the script below has iterated 250 
> times without a problem.
> 
> Going to leave it running and see if it simply keeps on going.
> 
> Rob, puzzeled!

Just wanted to do a final follow up, I have been running the code under 
cygwin all weekend now and it hasn't crashed. (a marked improvement over 
the 50 odd seconds I was previously getting).

I can't see anything in the changelog to suggest that there was 
something fixed between when 1.7.2-4 for windows was released and the 
cvs code I checked out on the 20th september.

Which, I think, suggests there is something wrong in the underlying 
nature of the VisiC++ build. Unfortuantly I am not capable of digging 
deep enough to find out what.

Rob