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Re: fifo woes
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 12:37:12 -0400
- Subject: Re: fifo woes
- References: <50041EA9.4020102@redhat.com> <50041EEA.2020103@redhat.com>
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On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:02:18AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>On 07/16/2012 08:01 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> It's nice to know that Cygwin isn't the only platform plagued with fifo
>> woes; here's a bug in the Linux kernel handling of fifos that manifested
>> itself when dash was used to run the git testsuite:
>>
>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash
>
>It helps if I post the right link:
>
>http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/745/focus=763
You realize that your email subject gave me a nice sinking "Oh @#$*"
feeling when I saw it right? :-)
With all of the work I've put into fifos in the last couple of releases
I thought you'd found something new. It *is* nice to see Linux having
problems too. They are a lot trickier than they seem.
cgf