On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote: > Actually, named pipes have _never_ worked, at least according to the full > set of POSIX rules. It's just that some releases had code that limped along > better than in other releases for the particular use cases you happened to > throw at them. cgf is working miracles to get it as far along as he has, > but it's a very tough job to emulate POSIX fifos on top of windows.
Interesting. I used them successfully for a couple of years with 1.5, IIRC. My mode of usage was usually something like: $ mkfifo fifo1 fifo2 $ decode_audio_to_PCM audiofile | tee fifo1 > fifo2 & $ encode_audio_to_format_1 -o newaudio1 fifo1 $ encode_audio_to_format_2 -o newaudio2 fifo2 This has two distinct advantages over tempfiles for me. I don't have to wait for the decode to complete before I start to re-encode & I don't need the disk space for large chunks of uncompressed audio. NT -- 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
