Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com To: cygwin@cygwin.com, "Gary R. Van Sickle" Subject: Re: mkstemp bug Mail-Copies-To: never Reply-To: sds@gnu.org X-Attribution: Sam X-Disclaimer: You should not expect anyone to agree with me. From: Sam Steingold In-Reply-To: <30153.9471060552$1114739651@news.gmane.org> (Gary R. Van Sickle's message of "Thu, 28 Apr 2005 21:01:07 -0500") References: <30153.9471060552$1114739651@news.gmane.org> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com, "Gary R. Van Sickle" Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2005 10:19:56 -0400 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain > * Gary R. Van Sickle [2005-04-28 21:01:07 -0500]: > > [snip] >> > So when I say "fifos just barely work" you felt the need to >> inform me >> > that they don't work? And that advances the discussion >> how, exactly? >> >> I did not just tell you that they are broken. >> I also gave you a test case for FIFOs: >>>>> >>Try >> mkfifo foo >> xterm -e 'tty >> foo; cat foo' >> (now foo can be used by other tty application to communicate with the >> user via the dedicated xterm - works in linux but not cygwin). >>>>> >> I think such a test case is useful for development and debugging. > > Dude, you are just *asking* for one heck of a zinger! Sorry, I am not sure I understand what you mean. (PS it may be because English is not my native language...) -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k The only thing worse than X Windows: (X Windows) - X -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/