First, I placed all files to explain this issue at https://github.com/LumaKernel/issue-WSL2-pipe .
a.c is small program enough to reproduce this issue. ( Simple program to read lines and print unless it finds EOF. )
a.exe is compiled with gcc.exe a.c.
a.linux.out is compiled with gcc a.c.
I found the same issue with Go and Rust programs (including clip.exe ( one shipped from Microsoft ;) ), win32yank, my small Go program and powershell.exe (see below) ).
This issue doesn't happen with Linux Programs.
$ # All below commands are run with bash.
$ # using WSL2
$ echo $SHELL
/bin/bash
$ uname -a
Linux MyComputer 4.19.104-microsoft-standard #1 SMP Wed Feb 19 06:37:35 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ cat /proc/version
Linux version 4.19.104-microsoft-standard (oe-user@oe-host) (gcc version 8.2.0 (GCC)) #1 SMP Wed Feb 19 06:37:35 UTC 2020
$ cat /etc/os-release
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS"
VERSION_ID="18.04"
HOME_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="https://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
PRIVACY_POLICY_URL="https://www.ubuntu.com/legal/terms-and-policies/privacy-policy"
VERSION_CODENAME=bionic
UBUNTU_CODENAME=bionic
$ which gcc.exe # This is shipped from `scoop install gcc` ( actually mingw-w64's one )
/mnt/c/Users/luma/scoop/apps/gcc/current/bin/gcc.exe
$ which gcc
/home/linuxbrew/.linuxbrew/bin/gcc
winver.exe is saying...
ver and wsl -l -v in cmd is saying...
C:\Users\luma>ver
Microsoft Windows [Version 10.0.20180.1000]
C:\Users\luma>wsl -l -v
NAME STATE VERSION
* Ubuntu Running 2
docker-desktop Running 2
Ubuntu-18.04 Stopped 1
docker-desktop-data Running 2
Alpine Running 2The piping is broken if checking EOF in program. Windows executable program will stop working without exiting.
$ ./a.exe < sample.txt # works well with file input
61 0a |a.|
62 0a |b.|
FOUND EOF!!
$ echo a | ./a.exe # not working well
61 0a |a.|
^C$
$ # After at least 3 seconds, but not reaching EOF
$ # and I hit CTRL-C to stop a program.
$ # same
$ cat sample.txt | ./a.exe
61 0a |a.|
62 0a |b.|
^C$Below is using linux native executable ( and this is the expected behavior. )
$ ./a.linux.out < sample.txt
61 0a |a.|
62 0a |b.|
FOUND EOF!!
$ cat sample.txt | ./a.linux.out
61 0a |a.|
62 0a |b.|
FOUND EOF!!This may have happened after installing update of WSL2 Linux Kernel from here. It was working well before installing this.
A. Yes.
$ echo -ne "a\x0a" | powershell.exe -c "Read-Host"
a
a
$A. No.
$ echo -en "a\x0d\x0ab\x0d\x0a\x0d\x0a" | ./a.exe
61 0a |a.|
62 0a |b.|
0a |.|
^C$Filed this to microsoft/WSL#5699 .
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