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From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Berber?= <rberber AT prodigy DOT net DOT mx>
Subject:  Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken
Date:  Sat, 30 Apr 2005 21:52:28 -0500
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Jerry D. Hedden wrote:
[snip]
>> However, that said, the above WJFFM.  In fact, it works more like linux
>> in 1.5.16 than it does on 1.5.15, i.e., the cat command exits after
>> printing "YOUR TEXT HERE" whereas it continues to block in 1.5.15.
> 
> 
> I tried the 4/30 snapshot of cygwin1.dll.  It exhibited the behavior you
> mentioned with the 'cat' exiting after it reads text.  However, this is
> a bad thing.  It means that the FIFO is being set EOF after there is no
> more data.  I tried my client-server app with the snapshot cygwin1.dll,
> and it failed because of this.
> 
> It seems to me that the behavior of FIFOs under 1.5.15 was correct, and
> that under both 1.5.16 and the snapshot, FIFOs are now broken.

FWIW, I just tested your example under Solaris 8 and it works just like
Christopher describes.
-- 
René Berber


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