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From: Nathan Thern <nthern@gmail.com>
To: cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: General question on the status of named pipes
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:51:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALEg2urgsV9EK9cgbawiDJdvYt4p5wQ8M5b50pvF19=hEitSrg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

I have several scripts that use named pipes for the purpose of
processing sound files. I use them on both linux and cygwin. After the
switch to cygwin1.7 I converted most of them to the use of tempfiles.
Nevertheless, when encountering old scripts in my archives or when
trying to create efficient new scripts I find myself wishing named
pipes still worked; they are one of the more powerful unix-ish
paradigms.

What's the status/priority of getting named pipes to work in 1.7? And,
just for curiosity's sake, what was the fundamental change in 1.7 that
caused them to stop working? -- They worked great in 1.5.

Cygwin is a great tool, and I'm constantly grateful for it's existence.

regards,
NT

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             reply	other threads:[~2011-10-24 12:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-24 12:51 Nathan Thern [this message]
2011-10-24 17:55 ` Eric Blake
2011-10-24 18:47   ` Nathan Thern
2011-11-02  3:24   ` Christopher Faylor

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