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Re: 1.7.2 release?
On Jan 26 14:10, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 07:02:13PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >
> >I think we could release 1.7.2 really soon now. I was hoping for end
> >of next week. However, at least the following points are still open:
> >
> >- The AFS FS access problem. I'm working on that one.
> >
> >- Discussion: Linux or Windows default charsets as Cygwin default charsets
> > in locales without explicit charset?
> >
> > My POV: I'm interested in POSIX/Linux interoperability in the first
> > place. Native Windows interop is nice, but second. And eventually
> > there is a workaround: LANG="foo_BAR.CHARSET".
> >
> >- Multiple reports of git+ssh interoperability. I was hoping that
> > Eric would have a look into that...
> >
> >- $ echo LOG:bananas | tee >(grep "^LOG:" > file.txt)
> > LOG:bananas
> > tee: /dev/fd/63: Bad file descriptor
> >
> > Is that a fifo problem? If so, it might not be overly pressing since
> > it would be an extension rather than a fix, wouldn't it?
> >
> >Anything else?
>
> I have been tinkering with the fifo problems. There is a select()
> problem right now that I haven't been able to fix.
>
> I completely redesigned it a couple of weekends ago and made it much
> much worse. So I'm making progress.
>
> If it comes down to it, I guess this wouldn't be a regression but it
> would be nice to have the fifo stuff working better. I'm beginning to
> think that equating named pipes with fifos might not have been a good
> idea. It seems like there's obvious linkage between the two but the
> underlying model really is different.
Would sockets under the hood work better for fifos, just as for AF_UNIX
sockets?
Corinna
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