On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 07:25:25PM +0200, Etienne Carriere wrote: >Hello, > >I currently have a curious behavior with fifo (named pipes on cygwin >1.7.5) . I first discovered when using Nagios on cygwin but I achieved >to simplify it . The scenario is the following :
If you search the mailing list archives, you'll see a fair number of problems with fifos and you'll also see my acknowledgement of same. fifos in Cygwin are a work-in-progress and are not guaranteed to work like their linux counterparts. I do poke at them from time to time but, for now, you'll have to consider them to be "as-is". That means that some things are broken. 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