From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25999 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 2011 18:30:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 25990 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Apr 2011 18:30:39 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.295.ca (HELO mail.295.ca) (208.85.220.65) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 18:30:25 +0000 Received: from offload1.295.ca (offload1 [208.85.220.66]) by mail.295.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id C768228A8197 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:30:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail.295.ca ([208.85.220.65]) by offload1.295.ca (offload1.295.ca [208.85.220.66]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id r-ZArdLlEuP0 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:30:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (unknown [208.83.215.196]) (using TLSv1 with cipher RC4-MD5 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: icanprogram@295.ca) by mail.295.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0556E28A7848 for ; Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:30:22 -0400 (EDT) From: bob 295 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: needed feature in Cygwin fifos Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 19:53:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <201104261431.21330.icanprogram@295.ca> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com X-SW-Source: 2011-04/txt/msg00370.txt.bz2 >On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:34:16PM -0400, bob 295 wrote: >>I recognize that Cygwin fifos are "buggy and not suitable for anything but >>simplest of applications", however in the spirit of seeing if things can be >>improved here is some more test code which illustrates one of the "bugs". >Maybe I need to be clearer: I don't need demonstrations of bugs. I know >what doesn't work. >The fifo layer needs a total rewrite right now. Sending this type of email >is a waste of your time. >cgf Fair enough. Is that total rewrite underway? If so any idea when we'll see a workable version? If not what would it take to expedite things? More developer resources? What type of skillset would you need? Thanks again. bob -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple