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Re: [1.7] fifo regression


On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 02:02:12PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 10:18:39PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 07:03:11AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>>>But on cygwin 1.7, when you attempt to create multiple writers to a single
>>>fifo, the second writer creates an fd just fine but then fails on any
>>>attempt to write to that fd:
>>
>>I see the problem but I don't know how to fix it yet.  It may be a
>>couple of days before I can come up with a solution.
>
>Just an update: I now have a headache.  Thanks again Microsoft for
>making it all so complicated.  This is YA example of a feature (Windows
>Named Pipes) which behave 98% of the way you'd expect it to work.  The
>2% is the killer.

Just an update:  @#$%^&*(!

cgf

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