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 11:04:08 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken Message-ID: <20050502150408.GC29132@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <427424F9.8060209@1979.usna.com> <20050501010945.GB21071@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> <42743E33.1020700@1979.usna.com> <20050501052345.GA25851@trixie.casa.cgf.cx> 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 10:30:40AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Sun, 1 May 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> If you want to more-or-less duplicate the behavior of 1.5.15 you can do >> something like this: >> >> (echo 99999&; echo YOUR TEXT HERE) > /tmp/FIFO > >This is pretty obvious from the context and the following paragraph, but >just to clarify for the archives: the above should be > >(sleep 99999&; echo YOUR TEXT HERE) > /tmp/FIFO Actually, it should be: (sleep 99999& echo YOUR TEXT HERE) > /tmp/FIFO i.e., no semicolon. But, then, 'cat <>' is better. 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/