X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.7 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FROM,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,TW_MK X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <5007B4CF.7030405@gmail.com> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:18:39 +0200 From: marco atzeri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problem with <> redirection to named pipe References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: 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 7/19/2012 8:53 AM, Nikolay Shirokovskiy wrote: > Hello. > > When I try: > >> mkfifo fifo >> exec 5<>fifo > > I get "Device or resource busy" error message. On linux distro these > lines work well. no error massages on latest snapshot (http://cygwin.com/snapshots/) $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 ........... 1.7.16s(0.261/5/3) 20120715 16:28:30 i686 Cygwin > > I made some browising through archives and encountered notices that > FIFOs implementation > in Cygwin is incomplete. Is this the cause or I miss something? > What is your cygwin version ? Regards Marco -- 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