X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:55:33 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: bi-directional named pipe Message-ID: <20090702175533.GG9839@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-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/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: 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 On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:55:16PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote: >The upcoming upstream Autoconf 2.64 release will introduce a new feature for >parallel testsuite execution, which can vastly decrease the time spent testing >several packages (autoconf itself, m4, tar, findutils, ...). However, it >currently requires support for bi-directional named pipes. POSIX does not >require this, but Linux provides it; is there any chance of implementing it in >cygwin? I'm not going to perturb this code again before 1.7.1 is released. Possibly after that but I wouldn't hold my breath. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple