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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:04:54 -0500
From: Ryan Johnson <ryan DOT johnson AT cs DOT utoronto DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: fifo rewrite for Google Summer of Code project
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On 19/01/2012 10:50 AM, bob 295 wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 09:29:41AM -0500, bob 295 wrote:
>>> Last spring we tried to port our SIMPL project code to Cygwin but fell
>>> acropper of the known fifo issues in Cygwin.    We haven't been able to find
>>> expertise to contribute to a rewrite of the fifo functionality.
>> Who's "we"?
>>> I would like to nominate the cygwin fifo rewrite for a Google Summer of
>>> Code 2012 project.  Hopefully the deadline hasn't passed.
>> fifos have been rewritten in 1.7.10.  But, then, I don't think we really
>> have the organization to handle a Google Summer of Code project anyway.
>> cgf
> I'm on the Cygwin list in digest mode,  so my apologies if this note isn't
> threaded properly in the archives.
>
> The "we" refers to the developers in the SIMPL project
> (http://www.icanprogram.com/simpl).
>
> I just had one of the developers download the latest Cygwin and retry the test
> code from last April.  See archives under
>
>      * From: bob 295<icanprogram at 295 dot ca>
>      * To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
>      * Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 13:34:16 -0400
>      * Subject: needed feature in Cygwin fifos
>
> Fifo's still have the same problems as far as we can tell.
>
> However,  I think the latest public release is 1.7.9-1.   How do we get
> 1.7.10?
Have you tried http://cygwin.com/snapshots/? I've been using the Jan 11 
snapshot without problems, along with many other folks on this list.

Ryan


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