On Tue, Apr 19, 2011 at 11:01:55AM -0400, bob 295 wrote: >I'm porting a library from Linux to Cygwin and I've encountered a problem with >the behavior of named pipes (fifo's). >... >Is this the intended POSIX behavior? Is the problem the RDWR open?
The problem is that Cygwin's implementation of fifos is very buggy. I wouldn't recommend using them for anything but the simplest of applications. 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