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On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:01:55AM -0400, bob 295 wrote:
>I'm porting a library from Linux to Cygwin and I've encountered a problem with 
>the behavior of named pipes (fifo's).
>...
>Is this the intended POSIX behavior?   Is the problem the RDWR open? 

The problem is that Cygwin's implementation of fifos is very buggy.  I wouldn't
recommend using them for anything but the simplest of applications.

cgf

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