BUG: FIFO (named pipe) is broken on Cygwin

2013-01-21 Thread Zach Saw
According to POSIX, FIFO allows multiple readers / writers. However, it appears that Cygwin's implementation only allows for multiple readers and single writer. The following code fails on Cygwin but passes on Linux (tested on Ubuntu and Debian). Note that this code is to replicate an issue of a

Re: BUG: FIFO (named pipe) is broken on Cygwin

2013-01-22 Thread Greg Turner
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:38 PM, Zach Saw wrote: > > According to POSIX, FIFO allows multiple readers / writers. However, it > appears > that Cygwin's implementation only allows for multiple readers and single > writer. That's a known issue -- ostensibly, one not aggressively being worked on by a