Re: [Bug] Named Pipes (FIFO) / Bash

2015-05-14 Thread Achim Gratz
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

Re: [Bug] Named Pipes (FIFO) / Bash

2011-08-10 Thread Achim Gratz
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

Re: [Bug] Named Pipes (FIFO) / Bash

2011-01-30 Thread Achim Gratz
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

Re: [Bug] Named Pipes (FIFO) / Bash

2011-01-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
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.

Re: [Bug] Named Pipes (FIFO) / Bash

2011-01-24 Thread Eric Blake
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

Re: [Bug] Named Pipes (FIFO) / Bash

2011-01-24 Thread Achim Gratz
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.

[Bug] Named Pipes (FIFO) / Bash

2011-01-22 Thread Achim Gratz
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