On Fri, 19 Jun 2015, David Adam wrote: > On Tue, 19 May 2015, Andrew Schulman wrote: > > > Due to the large number of architectural and other changes within fish, > > > we have started with a beta release - fish 2.2b1. Any testing would be > > > very much appreciated. > > > > Hi. I'm testing in Cygwin x86_64. fish 2.2b1 builds and runs fine there. > > However, whenever I start a subshell, I get an error message on the console: > > > > andrex@arsenic ~> fish > > andrex@arsenic ~> Unable to make or open a FIFO for universal variables with > > path '/tmp/fish.andrex/fishd.arsenic.notifier': Device or resource busy > > > > Andrew > > I haven't looked closely at the way fish uses the FIFO for universal > variables, but unfortunately under Cygwin FIFOs do not support multiple > readers/multiple writers.
This is definitely the problem. I've put some information on the workaround on the issue tracker: https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/2152 David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor 25 network devices or servers for free with OpManager! OpManager is web-based network management software that monitors network devices and physical & virtual servers, alerts via email & sms for fault. Monitor 25 devices for free with no restriction. Download now http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/292181274;119417398;o _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list Fish-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users