X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,FREEMAIL_FROM,NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED,SPF_HELO_PASS,TW_MK,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD,T_TO_NO_BRKTS_FREEMAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <28611103.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 09:52:46 -0700 (PDT) From: benczur To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe. (merge back into trunk please) In-Reply-To: <4BCFAA76.3020104@cygwin.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <4B30AD0BED19E842AAE88DC3973649312411601388@mail3.walsh.edu> <20100406141508.GD16409@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <4BBB4EE4.9080508@gmail.com> <20100406150121.GE16409@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <20100406164537.GA19024@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> <28323001.post@talk.nabble.com> <4BCFAA76.3020104@cygwin.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes 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 Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote: > > On 4/21/2010 8:42 PM, will.dutt wrote: >> Christopher Faylor-8 wrote: >>> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:01:21AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>>> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 04:10:28PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >>>> $ mkfifo /tmp/fifo >>>> $ cat /tmp/fifo >>>> >>>> That demonstrates the problem. I'll fix this ASAP. >>> >>> This should be fixed in the latest snapshot: >>> >>> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/ >> >> when will this snapshot be incorporated back into cygwin, i also rely on >> fifo working and for my latest 1.7.x install i had to source this >> snapshot > to get it working. > > > > Watch the announce list when you're looking for new releases. In your > case, > there was a release the next day with the fix. There's also been another > release since then. > > Sorry for bringig up this thread again, but was this issue fixed in 1.7.5-1? When I do: $ mkfifo /tmp/pipe $ ls -l > /tmp/pipe cygwin hangs... and cannot be stopped by Ctrl-C. Alternatively after $ ls -l > /tmp/pipe & $ cat /tmp/pipe nothing happens, so I interrupt cat with Ctrl-C, and finally try: $ cat < /tmp/pipe cat: -: Communication error on send Or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Sanyi -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/CygWin-1.7.3-1-fails-to-provide-pipe.-tp28150744p28611103.html Sent from the Cygwin list mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- 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