> * Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-27 22:29:34 -0400]: > > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 07:39:37PM -0400, Sam Steingold wrote: >>> * Christopher Faylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-04-27 18:20:31 -0400]: >>> >>>>the problem is that mkstemp() does not regard FIFOs (as created by >>>>mkfifo() or mknod()) as existing files. >>>> >>>>e.g. >>>> >>>> char s1[] = "/tmp/foo-XXXXXX"; >>>> char s2[] = "/tmp/foo-XXXXXX"; >>>> int fd = mkstemp(s1); >>>> close(fd); remove(s1); >>>> mkfifo(s1,0644); >>>> mkstemp(s2); >>>> strcmp(s1,s2) ===> 0 >>> >>> fifos just barely work under cygwin. I wouldn't recommend using them. >> >>Yes, it appears that they are heavily broken. > > So when I say "fifos just barely work" you felt the need to inform me > that they don't work? And that advances the discussion how, exactly?
I did not just tell you that they are broken. I also gave you a test case for FIFOs. I think such a test case is useful for development and debugging. -- Sam Steingold (http://www.podval.org/~sds) running w2k <http://www.openvotingconsortium.org/> <http://www.camera.org> <http://www.honestreporting.com> <http://www.dhimmi.com/> <http://ffii.org/> Isn't "Microsoft Works" an advertisement lie? -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
