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Date:	Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:33:11 -0500
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Subject:	Re: fifo rewrite for Google Summer of Code project
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On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:29:41AM -0500, bob 295 wrote:
>Last spring we tried to port our SIMPL project code to Cygwin but fell
>acropper of the known fifo issues in Cygwin.    We haven't been able to find
>expertise to contribute to a rewrite of the fifo functionality.

Who's "we"?

>I would like to nominate the cygwin fifo rewrite for a Google Summer of
>Code 2012 project.  Hopefully the deadline hasn't passed.

fifos have been rewritten in 1.7.10.  But, then, I don't think we really
have the organization to handle a Google Summer of Code project anyway.

cgf

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