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Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 10:58:04 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken
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On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 02:36:12AM -0400, Lev S Bishop wrote:
>On linux, both keep waiting for someone to write to the fifo.  On
>cygwin, when the second cat tries to listen on the fifo, they both
>exit.  I don't know how fifos are supposed to work, but I'm guessing
>cygwin gets it wrong here.

Yes, this is one of the reasons that I can't say "fifos work fine" in
cygwin.

cgf

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