X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:35:13 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: [1.7] fifo regression Message-ID: <20090719233513.GA15166@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <4A51F60F.2030304@byu.net> <20090707021839.GA26814@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20090707180212.GE4609@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090707180212.GE4609@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> 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 Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:02:12PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:18:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:03:11AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >>>But on cygwin 1.7, when you attempt to create multiple writers to a single >>>fifo, the second writer creates an fd just fine but then fails on any >>>attempt to write to that fd: >> >>I see the problem but I don't know how to fix it yet. It may be a >>couple of days before I can come up with a solution. > >Just an update: I now have a headache. Thanks again Microsoft for >making it all so complicated. This is YA example of a feature (Windows >Named Pipes) which behave 98% of the way you'd expect it to work. The >2% is the killer. Just an update: @#$%^&*(! 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