[PATCH fifo 0/2] Add support for duplex FIFOs

[Ken Brown]

The second patch in this series enables opening a FIFO with O_RDWR
access.  The underlying Windows named pipe is creted with duplex
access, and its handle is made the I/O handle of the first client.

While testing this, I had some mysterious crashes, which are fixed by
the first patch.

I tested the patch in two ways.

First, I went back to Kerrisk's server/client programs cited in
https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2015-03/msg00047.html.  The server
program opens a FIFO twice, once with O_RDONLY access and once with
O_WRONLY access.  The fd from the second call is never used; the
purpose of that call is simply to make sure that attempts to read from
the FIFO will never indicate EOF.  I removed the second call and
instead opened the FIFO only once, with O_RDWR access.  The
server/client programs still worked as expected.

The second test was the following sequence of commands in a bash
shell:

$ mkfifo foo

$ exec 7<>foo

$ echo blah > foo

$ read bar <&7

$ echo $bar
blah

Ken

Ken Brown (2):
  Cygwin: FIFO: avoid crashes when cloning a client
  Cygwin: FIFO: add support for the duplex case

 winsup/cygwin/fhandler.h       |  7 ++-
 winsup/cygwin/fhandler_fifo.cc | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

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