Jerry D. Hedden wrote: [snip] >> However, that said, the above WJFFM. In fact, it works more like linux >> in 1.5.16 than it does on 1.5.15, i.e., the cat command exits after >> printing "YOUR TEXT HERE" whereas it continues to block in 1.5.15. > > > I tried the 4/30 snapshot of cygwin1.dll. It exhibited the behavior you > mentioned with the 'cat' exiting after it reads text. However, this is > a bad thing. It means that the FIFO is being set EOF after there is no > more data. I tried my client-server app with the snapshot cygwin1.dll, > and it failed because of this. > > It seems to me that the behavior of FIFOs under 1.5.15 was correct, and > that under both 1.5.16 and the snapshot, FIFOs are now broken.
FWIW, I just tested your example under Solaris 8 and it works just like Christopher describes. -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
