Achim Gratz writes:
I'm having problems with some bash scripts that were developed (not be
me) and working OK in Cygwin 1.6.x versions, but not in 1.7.x (tested on
1.7.6, 1.7.7 and the latest snapshot). After some gnashing of teeth and
pulling of hair I've whittled it down to a problem with
Achim Gratz strom...@nexgo.de writes:
In other words, opening the pipe is non-blocking, even though no
listener is present. Listing /proc/self/fd lists fd 6 as opened to FIFO
/tmp/pipe, but any output to it blocks indefinitely. I believe that the
FIFO has in fact never been opened as far as
I'd be grateful for any insights and/or ideas for possible workarounds.
Could anybody please comment if there are changes to the whole area of
(named) pipes in the upcoming 1.7.8 release? Should I just grab the
latest snapshot and try my luck? I don't mind if it's not POSIX
compliant if at
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 04:24:48PM +0100, Achim Gratz wrote:
I'd be grateful for any insights and/or ideas for possible workarounds.
Could anybody please comment if there are changes to the whole area of
(named) pipes in the upcoming 1.7.8 release?
There are no changes to named pipes in 1.7.8.
On 01/22/2011 01:57 PM, Achim Gratz wrote:
I'm having problems with some bash scripts that were developed (not be
me) and working OK in Cygwin 1.6.x versions, but not in 1.7.x (tested on
1.7.6, 1.7.7 and the latest snapshot). After some gnashing of teeth and
pulling of hair I've whittled it
Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com writes:
Not just in bash, but in cygwin in general. Named pipes are still an
incomplete implementation, and until patches are written to get it
working more like posix, you can't expect them to work reliably.
I said I knew that it wasn't working like POSIX pipes.
I'm having problems with some bash scripts that were developed (not be
me) and working OK in Cygwin 1.6.x versions, but not in 1.7.x (tested on
1.7.6, 1.7.7 and the latest snapshot). After some gnashing of teeth and
pulling of hair I've whittled it down to a problem with named pipe
handling in
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