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Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 08:53:36 -0400
From: "Jerry D. Hedden" <jdhedden AT 1979 DOT usna DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken
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 >>>> 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.

Okay.  I have seen the error of my ways.  I'm going to rewrite my app to 
use UPD instead.

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