[Rd] problem with pipes (PR#5053)

[dmurdoch at pair.com]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 08:29:58 -0800 (PST), you wrote:

>On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 ggrothendieck at myway.com wrote:
>>
>> 3. Usually I get the above but sometimes I get no output from readLines at
>> all.
>>
>
>This last problem may be the same as PR#1140 on the Mac, where popen()
>calls sometimes got killed by an interrupt.

No, this was a Windows-specific thing.  The connection wasn't
initialized properly, so sometimes it thought a null character had
been pushed back.

I'll be committing patches to src/gnuwin32/run.c in r-patched and
r-devel shortly.

Duncan Murdoch