On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 04:10:28PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote: >On 06/04/2010 15:15, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 07:55:19AM -0400, George Barrick wrote: >>> What I am suggesting is that the new cygwin.dll has difficulties >>> implementing the kind of pipe that octave uses to send its graphing >>> commands to gnuplot. The specific details of the pipe that serves as >>> an example of this can be seen in the __gnuplot_get_var__.m script >>> inside the GNU Octave package. >> >> Sorry but unless someone can narrow this down to a test case which >> does not requier installing gnuplot I don't intend on investigating >> this. > > Here ya go. I took a look at the octave module, and narrowed it down to the >equivalent C testcase attached, which appears to reproduce the same failure >mode for me:
Thanks for tracking it down but the test case is probably simpler than this. $ mkfifo /tmp/fifo $ cat /tmp/fifo That demonstrates the problem. I'll fix this ASAP. 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
