Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs

2013-07-14 Thread Mark Levedahl
On 07/13/2013 08:57 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying Windows users would never want to access Subversion repositories? Thanks, Jonathan Quite the contrary. SVN and git both work on Windows without having POSIX FIFOs - Windows does have FIFOS, but the semantics

Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs

2013-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Mark Levedahl wrote: However, I don't understand why git would need to consume its own output - If named pipes are really needed to use git-svn because git-svn depends upon git feeding the same git process, then that package should not be available on cygwin or any other platform that does

Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs

2013-07-13 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Torsten Bögershausen wrote: Disabling PIPE under cygwin seems to be the right thing to do, or do I miss something ? If fifos don't work on Cygwin, disabling that test prerequisite is defintely the right thing to do. I was taking the opportunity to find out whether and how git could be tweaked

Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs

2013-07-08 Thread Mark Levedahl
On 07/06/2013 08:55 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Mark Levedahl wrote: Do not use FIFOs on cygwin, they do not work. Cygwin includes coreutils, so has mkfifo, and that command does something. However, the resultant named pipe is known (on the Cygwin mailing list at least) to not work correctly.

Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs

2013-07-07 Thread Torsten Bögershausen
On 2013-07-07 02.55, Jonathan Nieder wrote: Mark Levedahl wrote: Do not use FIFOs on cygwin, they do not work. Cygwin includes coreutils, so has mkfifo, and that command does something. However, the resultant named pipe is known (on the Cygwin mailing list at least) to not work correctly.

Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs

2013-07-06 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Mark Levedahl wrote: Do not use FIFOs on cygwin, they do not work. Cygwin includes coreutils, so has mkfifo, and that command does something. However, the resultant named pipe is known (on the Cygwin mailing list at least) to not work correctly. Hm. How would you recommend going about

[PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs

2013-07-04 Thread Mark Levedahl
Do not use FIFOs on cygwin, they do not work. Cygwin includes coreutils, so has mkfifo, and that command does something. However, the resultant named pipe is known (on the Cygwin mailing list at least) to not work correctly. This disables PIPE for Cygwin, allowing t0008.sh to complete (all other