On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:55:15AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >On 10/24/2011 06:51 AM, Nathan Thern wrote: >> I have several scripts that use named pipes for the purpose of >> processing sound files. I use them on both linux and cygwin. After the >> switch to cygwin1.7 I converted most of them to the use of tempfiles. >> Nevertheless, when encountering old scripts in my archives or when >> trying to create efficient new scripts I find myself wishing named >> pipes still worked; they are one of the more powerful unix-ish >> paradigms. >> >> What's the status/priority of getting named pipes to work in 1.7? And, >> just for curiosity's sake, what was the fundamental change in 1.7 that >> caused them to stop working? -- They worked great in 1.5. > >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.
No guarantees but the most recent snapshot should work better. There is still at least one glaring problem that I'm aware of but it may work better than 1.7.9. 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
