> How is it that this has not bitten us elsewhere? Are we only reading
> tiny things from pipes in other cases so that a single read works?
IIRC, this particular use of ReadFile is only to read version strings.
> It seems very strange that a shorter version string should cause the
failure.
Counterintuitive, but appeared entirely reproducible on my WinXP
installation. No doubt there is a perfectly unreasonable explanation.
Interested in seeing another confirmation.
In any case, afaics ReadFile fails to make any guarantee that it will return
an entire line, so pipe_read_line requires attention.
Cheers,
Claudio
