General question on the status of named pipes

2011-10-24 Thread Nathan Thern
I have several scripts that use named pipes for the purpose of processing sound files. I use them on both linux and cygwin. After the switch to cygwin1.7 I converted most of them to the use of tempfiles. Nevertheless, when encountering old scripts in my archives or when trying to create efficient n

Re: General question on the status of named pipes

2011-10-24 Thread Eric Blake
On 10/24/2011 06:51 AM, Nathan Thern wrote: I have several scripts that use named pipes for the purpose of processing sound files. I use them on both linux and cygwin. After the switch to cygwin1.7 I converted most of them to the use of tempfiles. Nevertheless, when encountering old scripts in my

Re: General question on the status of named pipes

2011-10-24 Thread Nathan Thern
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Eric Blake wrote: > Actually, named pipes have _never_ worked, at least according to the full > set of POSIX rules. It's just that some releases had code that limped along > better than in other releases for the particular use cases you happened to > throw at the

Re: General question on the status of named pipes

2011-11-01 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:55:15AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >On 10/24/2011 06:51 AM, Nathan Thern wrote: >> I have several scripts that use named pipes for the purpose of >> processing sound files. I use them on both linux and cygwin. After the >> switch to cygwin1.7 I converted most of them to the