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I found something about pipes in the rel notes for 1.5.20-1 at

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2006-07/msg00000.html

looks like they work.

I found a brief mention of socketpair at
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-api/std-misc.html#AEN107

and more here about sockets and select

http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/highlights.html#ov-hi-sockets

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 07:33:08PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 04:20:47PM -0800, Nathan Myers wrote:
> >Hi Christopher,
> >
> >Thank you for your quick reply.  I understand that this code might 
> >not ultimately be useful to cygwin.  It continues to work in my 
> >project, so I'm not put out.  
> >
> >I wonder, though, do you know if it might be useful to Mingw?
> >I.e., might it be worth offering to them, or do you know of a
> >reason why not to bother?
> >
> >As a side note, Google finds lots of complaints about pipes not being
> >usefully selectable for writing in cygwin.  Has that been fixed already?

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