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Subject:	Re: [1.7] fifo regression
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On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:18:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:03:11AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>>But on cygwin 1.7, when you attempt to create multiple writers to a single
>>fifo, the second writer creates an fd just fine but then fails on any
>>attempt to write to that fd:
>
>I see the problem but I don't know how to fix it yet.  It may be a
>couple of days before I can come up with a solution.

Just an update: I now have a headache.  Thanks again Microsoft for
making it all so complicated.  This is YA example of a feature (Windows
Named Pipes) which behave 98% of the way you'd expect it to work.  The
2% is the killer.

cgf

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