From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12084 invoked by alias); 16 Jul 2012 17:01:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 11973 invoked by uid 22791); 16 Jul 2012 17:00:40 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from aquarius.hirmke.de (HELO calimero.vinschen.de) (217.91.18.234) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.83/v0.83-20-g38e4449) with ESMTP; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:00:16 +0000 Received: by calimero.vinschen.de (Postfix, from userid 500) id 145472C0074; Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:00:13 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 17:01:00 -0000 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Subject: Re: fifo woes Message-ID: <20120716170013.GJ15555@calimero.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com References: <50041EA9.4020102@redhat.com> <50041EEA.2020103@redhat.com> <20120716163712.GB23123@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120716163712.GB23123@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-talk-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-talk-owner@cygwin.com Reply-To: The Vulgar and Unprofessional Cygwin-Talk List Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-talk@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2012-q3/txt/msg00005.txt.bz2 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