From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-lf1-x12a.google.com (mail-lf1-x12a.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::12a]) by sourceware.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF20C385E00B for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:11:40 +0000 (GMT) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 sourceware.org CF20C385E00B Received: by mail-lf1-x12a.google.com with SMTP id c20so1437535lfb.0 for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:11:40 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:from:to:subject:date:message-id:mime-version :content-transfer-encoding:thread-index:content-language; bh=NRGvvOB1/XHuOs/IwiOQ3j+15hE+UcfwIviqQVFxc5g=; b=JuIdSTkCyJmex55J9tN6GqRnaN3r8RsUUwhRBF/7JIcgtu+I7m2bv364TIv9Y70dsw vT5gyjpzgpbwpx6N6/ML5vbE7HvRgEqdKgoY5UbPPapwS10UJuIO83Z/ooeWBi/exuRr KhAP1bnY5BJm1Z14onizjwtb69Bp+f+e7L9+z1HEONRVMfF5x56lnifP+Yf2YxT0+jsZ OiNuTYllfs18GzhQS3D7TEi/7SEs+7QZiRFcUYuY5AZyQtvgyAnHSA+SyDuDPaUW/RYp 68Gwf6IQnS8B6nv43rtVPbR+E5J/emCYMMTU84NmAPdPZKwD2+GNJocKeNqjxg/qVbOA rfbg== X-Gm-Message-State: ANhLgQ0cyoERcDv0SlHsmaMTfK254lm2rZl6JRuM7j+yoyp1pAErH7sX gvoYboft45C5Et1Gw9w3/YtJWtQL X-Google-Smtp-Source: ADFU+vtAx/5wHEJyRks8G/WJq5nTya01inoZf99sqAICNE5MA6jsvNXSp0na9UAlcTeDK84NvIdw3w== X-Received: by 2002:a19:a401:: with SMTP id q1mr1941497lfc.157.1585134698937; Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from JOKK (87-249-164-127.ljusnet.se. [87.249.164.127]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id a20sm3641861lfi.59.2020.03.25.04.11.37 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Wed, 25 Mar 2020 04:11:38 -0700 (PDT) From: To: Subject: Named pipes and multiple writers Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 12:11:37 +0100 Message-ID: <1b1401d60296$2769e690$763db3b0$@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 16.0 Thread-Index: AdYClhRtE3ZFQFnOT/SlrM+ewahY+w== Content-Language: en-gb X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00, DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID, DKIM_VALID_AU, DKIM_VALID_EF, FREEMAIL_FROM, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE, SPF_HELO_NONE, SPF_PASS, TXREP autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.2 (2018-09-13) on server2.sourceware.org X-BeenThere: cygwin@cygwin.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: General Cygwin discussions and problem reports List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2020 11:11:43 -0000 I'll apologize in advance if something is not appropriate, but this is the first interaction with this project We (another open source project) have bumped into some problems using named pipes with multiple writers As far as I can see, reading through history, this have been a known issue for quite some time, but it seems like there have been some attempts to solve it, e.g. in the branch topic/fifo (by Ken Brown) I tried to build that branch and also tried to merge related commits to master and build that, but all without success and I guess the changes need some background info to understand how to manually incorporate the changes into later versions of master Does anyone have any knowledge about if this (topic/fifo branch) is working and/or if it is somehow planned to make it into the master branch and end up in a future release ? Does anyone know of any other attempts to solve this issue ? Kristian