X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:12:19 +0100 From: Enrico Forestieri To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: select() and named pipes Message-ID: <20091223021219.GA5836@GIOVE> References: <20091222224309.GA3504@GIOVE> <20091223003714.GA4491@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20091223003714.GA4491@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i 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, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:37:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:43:09PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: > >I am experiencing a problem with select() and named pipes in cygwin > >1.7. The attached test case segfaults on the select() call, but works > >fine with both cygwin 1.5 and linux. > > Thanks for the test case. This should be fixed in the next Cygwin > snapshot but it will not be fixed (of course?) in 1.7.1 which is now > available from the Cygwin web site. I confirm that with the 20091222 snapshot the crash does not occur anymore. However, there's still something wrong. Indeed, running the test case in a terminal and issuing "echo foo > /tmp/pipe" from another one, the program exits without printing the expected "foo". Let me take the occasion for thanking you and all other developers for the newly released 1.7. -- Enrico -- 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