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Re: cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken


>>>> However, that said, the above WJFFM.  In fact, it works more like
>>>> linux in 1.5.16 than it does on 1.5.15, i.e., the cat command exits
>>>> after printing "YOUR TEXT HERE" whereas it continues to block in
>>>> 1.5.15.

>> I tried the 4/30 snapshot of cygwin1.dll.  It exhibited the behavior
>> you mentioned with the 'cat' exiting after it reads text.  However,
>> this is a bad thing.  It means that the FIFO is being set EOF after
>> there is no more data.  I tried my client-server app with the
>> snapshot cygwin1.dll, and it failed because of this.
>>
>> It seems to me that the behavior of FIFOs under 1.5.15 was correct,
>> and that under both 1.5.16 and the snapshot, FIFOs are now broken.

> FWIW, I just tested your example under Solaris 8 and it works just
> like Christopher describes.

Okay. I have seen the error of my ways. I'm going to rewrite my app to use UPD instead.

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