Re: Options for IPC between bash processes under cygwin

2009-12-04 Thread Jon Seymour
Oh, cool. Thanks for correcting me! jon. On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > According to Jon Seymour on 12/4/2009 4:00 PM: >> On Linux or any reasonable OS, I could do this remote dispatch easily >> with named pipes, but these

Re: Options for IPC between bash processes under cygwin

2009-12-04 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Jon Seymour on 12/4/2009 4:00 PM: > On Linux or any reasonable OS, I could do this remote dispatch easily > with named pipes, but these don't exist on cygwin. That's where you're wrong. Named pipes DO exist on cygwin, although there are

Options for IPC between bash processes under cygwin

2009-12-04 Thread Jon Seymour
I'd like to dispatch commands from one light-weight bash process to a longer running bash process which takes longer to initialize [ I have a _big_ library of bash functions ]. On Linux or any reasonable OS, I could do this remote dispatch easily with named pipes, but these don't exist on cygwin.