On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 05:58:46PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 03:12:19AM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 07:37:14PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> > On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 11:43:09PM +0100, Enrico Forestieri wrote: >> > >I am experiencing a problem with select() and named pipes in cygwin >> > >1.7. The attached test case segfaults on the select() call, but works >> > >fine with both cygwin 1.5 and linux. >> > >> > Thanks for the test case. This should be fixed in the next Cygwin >> > snapshot but it will not be fixed (of course?) in 1.7.1 which is now >> > available from the Cygwin web site. >> >> I confirm that with the 20091222 snapshot the crash does not occur >> anymore. However, there's still something wrong. Indeed, running the >> test case in a terminal and issuing "echo foo > /tmp/pipe" from another >> one, the program exits without printing the expected "foo". > >Apparently, the problem is due to the O_NONBLOCK flag used in the open() >call. Taking away O_NONBLOCK, everything works.
I'm still tinkering with fifos. I hope to have some fixes for Cygwin 1.7.2 but no guarantees. cgf -- 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
