On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:04:26AM -0400, Lev Bishop wrote: > On 6/7/07, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 07:49:50PM +0800, Samuel Thibault wrote: > <snip> > >> >But when talking about communicating with other applications, we need to >> >use windows interfaces when the linux API doesn't permit it, shouldn't >> >we? >> >> Only if you can clearly communicate why the linux API doesn't work. I'm >> not convinced that this is not just a misconception on your part. > > Or to put it another way -- cygwin is rather careful when it comes to > pipes to make sure that all of these uses work correctly and > interoperate with with windows: > > C:\>dir | less > C:\>ls | less > C:\>dir | \windows\system32\more.com > C:\>ls | \windows\system32\more.com > $ cmd /c dir | les > $ ls | less > $ cmd /c dir | /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/more.com > $ cmd /c dir | /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/more.com > > (ie all 8 combinations of pipe-created-by:{win,cygwin}, > source:{win,cygwin}, sink:{win,cygwin} ) > > So, the big question is: what does brltty do with pipes that is > different to the above?
I'm ass*u*me*ing that brltty is using named pipes where it might have used fifos on linux. Cygwin's fifo implementation is not extremely robust so I could imagine some problems there. cgf -- 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/