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Re: named pipe (fifo) question
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:23:21 -0400
- Subject: Re: named pipe (fifo) question
- References: <201104191101.55556.icanprogram@295.ca>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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