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Subject:	Re: CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe.
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On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:01:21AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 04:10:28PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
>>On 06/04/2010 15:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 07:55:19AM -0400, George Barrick wrote:
>>>> What I am suggesting is that the new cygwin.dll has difficulties
>>>> implementing the kind of pipe that octave uses to send its graphing
>>>> commands to gnuplot.  The specific details of the pipe that serves as
>>>> an example of this can be seen in the __gnuplot_get_var__.m script
>>>> inside the GNU Octave package.
>>> 
>>> Sorry but unless someone can narrow this down to a test case which
>>> does not requier installing gnuplot I don't intend on investigating
>>> this.
>>
>>  Here ya go.  I took a look at the octave module, and narrowed it down to the
>>equivalent C testcase attached, which appears to reproduce the same failure
>>mode for me:
>
>Thanks for tracking it down but the test case is probably simpler than this.
>
>  $ mkfifo /tmp/fifo
>  $ cat /tmp/fifo
>
>That demonstrates the problem.  I'll fix this ASAP.

This should be fixed in the latest snapshot:

http://cygwin.com/snapshots/

cgf

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