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 Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 10:58:04 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken Message-ID: <20050502145804.GB29132@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 02:36:12AM -0400, Lev S Bishop wrote: >On linux, both keep waiting for someone to write to the fifo. On >cygwin, when the second cat tries to listen on the fifo, they both >exit. I don't know how fifos are supposed to work, but I'm guessing >cygwin gets it wrong here. Yes, this is one of the reasons that I can't say "fifos work fine" in cygwin. cgf -- 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/