X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 15:31:23 -0400 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: read -t hangs sometimes with pipes Message-ID: <20090620193123.GA14696@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 09:14:08PM +0200, Matthias Meyer wrote: >Sometimes pipes, created with mknod, seems not to be work fully correct. > >Most of the time I can do: >mknod /var/run/CONT p >read -t 2 signal < /var/run/CONT. > >After 2 seconds I receive a timeout and the read returns. >But sometimes the read will wait forever. And also if I write something >to /var/run/CONT, the read did not read it. > >Furthermore I can not "reset" anything. I have to reboot the workstation >thats pipes works again. > >Is there any posibility to reset something that pipes will work again >without reboot? >Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Please provide the information listed here. cgf -- 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