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Subject: Re: [1.7] fifo regression
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On Jul 19 19:35, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:02:12PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:18:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:03:11AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> >>>But on cygwin 1.7, when you attempt to create multiple writers to a single
> >>>fifo, the second writer creates an fd just fine but then fails on any
> >>>attempt to write to that fd:
> >>
> >>I see the problem but I don't know how to fix it yet.  It may be a
> >>couple of days before I can come up with a solution.
> >
> >Just an update: I now have a headache.  Thanks again Microsoft for
> >making it all so complicated.  This is YA example of a feature (Windows
> >Named Pipes) which behave 98% of the way you'd expect it to work.  The
> >2% is the killer.
> 
> Just an update:  @#$%^&*(!

This sounds promising.


Corinna

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