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Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 10:58:04 -0400
- Subject: Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0505020202360.24228-100000@ares.its.yale.edu>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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