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RE: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken
- From: "Gary R. Van Sickle" <g dot r dot vansickle at worldnet dot att dot net>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2005 19:56:25 -0500
- Subject: RE: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken
> I have a client-server application written in Perl that reads
> and writes using FIFOs. It works fine under cygwin-1.5.15-1,
> but fails under
> cygwin-1.5.16-1 because it cannot read from the FIFO.
>
> To test this, open two shells. In one shell, type:
> cd /tmp
> mkfifo FIFO
> cat <FIFO
>
> In the other shell, you can send text to the first shell using:
> cd /tmp
> echo YOUR TEXT HERE >>FIFO
>
> After you're done, just ^C in the first window.
>
> Under 1.5.15, the above works fine.
>
> Under 1.5.16, no text goes through the FIFO. Further, the
> echo command hangs, and will not terminate with ^C. A 'ps'
> shows an 'O' for this stuck shell. You have to do a kill -9
> on the shell to terminate it.
FIFOs are not fully implemented in Cygwin yet, but thank you for the test
case.
--
Gary R. Van Sickle
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