Re: needed feature in Cygwin fifos

2011-04-30 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 07:22:57AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: >On 04/30/2011 05:31 AM, bob 295 wrote: >>>This is a free software project so you can see for yourself what's >>>needed. The majority of the code is in fhandler_fifo.cc. >> >>Sounds like a perfect candidate for a Google Summer of Code pro

Re: needed feature in Cygwin fifos

2011-04-30 Thread Eric Blake
On 04/30/2011 05:31 AM, bob 295 wrote: >> This is a free software project so you can see for yourself what's >> needed. The majority of the code is in fhandler_fifo.cc. > >> cgf > > Sounds like a perfect candidate for a Google Summer of Code project proposal. Not this year; the deadline's alrea

Re: needed feature in Cygwin fifos

2011-04-30 Thread bob 295
>>>On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:34:16PM -0400, bob 295 wrote: I recognize that Cygwin fifos are "buggy and not suitable for anything but simplest of applications", however in the spirit of seeing if things can be improved here is some more test code which illustrates one of the "bugs"

Re: needed feature in Cygwin fifos

2011-04-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 02:31:19PM -0400, bob 295 wrote: >>On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:34:16PM -0400, bob 295 wrote: >>>I recognize that Cygwin fifos are "buggy and not suitable for anything but >>>simplest of applications", however in the spirit of seeing if things can be >>>improved here is som

Re: needed feature in Cygwin fifos

2011-04-26 Thread bob 295
>On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:34:16PM -0400, bob 295 wrote: >>I recognize that Cygwin fifos are "buggy and not suitable for anything but >>simplest of applications", however in the spirit of seeing if things can be >>improved here is some more test code which illustrates one of the "bugs". >Maybe

Re: needed feature in Cygwin fifos

2011-04-26 Thread Christopher Faylor
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 01:34:16PM -0400, bob 295 wrote: >I recognize that Cygwin fifos are "buggy and not suitable for anything but >simplest of applications", however in the spirit of seeing if things can be >improved here is some more test code which illustrates one of the "bugs". Maybe I ne

needed feature in Cygwin fifos

2011-04-26 Thread bob 295
I recognize that Cygwin fifos are "buggy and not suitable for anything but simplest of applications", however in the spirit of seeing if things can be improved here is some more test code which illustrates one of the "bugs". It seems that on Linux if you open a fifo for RDWR it will "trick" the