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From: "Lev Bishop" <lev.bishop@gmail.com>
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On 6/7/07, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:49:50PM +0800, Samuel Thibault wrote:
<snip>

> >But when talking about communicating with other applications, we need to
> >use windows interfaces when the linux API doesn't permit it, shouldn't
> >we?
>
> Only if you can clearly communicate why the linux API doesn't work.  I'm
> not convinced that this is not just a misconception on your part.

Or to put it another way -- cygwin is rather careful when it comes to
pipes to make sure that all of these uses work correctly and
interoperate with with windows:

C:\>dir | less
C:\>ls | less
C:\>dir | \windows\system32\more.com
C:\>ls | \windows\system32\more.com
$ cmd /c dir | les
$ ls | less
$ cmd /c dir | /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/more.com
$ cmd /c dir | /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/more.com

(ie all 8 combinations of pipe-created-by:{win,cygwin},
source:{win,cygwin}, sink:{win,cygwin} )

So, the big question is: what does brltty do with pipes that is
different to the above?

I know there are certain potential problems with non-blocking I/O on
pipes on cygwin, but they are limited to quite specific cases (rsync
is the main one that trips over this).

Lev

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