From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: fifo woes
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:01:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120716170013.GJ15555@calimero.vinschen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120716163712.GB23123@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
On Jul 16 12:37, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:02:18AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> >On 07/16/2012 08:01 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> >> It's nice to know that Cygwin isn't the only platform plagued with fifo
> >> woes; here's a bug in the Linux kernel handling of fifos that manifested
> >> itself when dash was used to run the git testsuite:
> >>
> >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash
> >
> >It helps if I post the right link:
> >
> >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/745/focus=763
>
> You realize that your email subject gave me a nice sinking "Oh @#$*"
> feeling when I saw it right? :-)
>
> With all of the work I've put into fifos in the last couple of releases
> I thought you'd found something new. It *is* nice to see Linux having
> problems too. They are a lot trickier than they seem.
And Linux doesn't even have to use Windows functions to implement them...
Corinna
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-16 14:01 Eric Blake
2012-07-16 14:02 ` Eric Blake
2012-07-16 16:37 ` Christopher Faylor
2012-07-16 17:01 ` Corinna Vinschen [this message]
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