cygwin-1.5.16-1: FIFOs broken

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 10:30:40AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>On Sun, 1 May 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> If you want to more-or-less duplicate the behavior of 1.5.15 you can do
>> something like this:
>>
>> (echo 99999&; echo YOUR TEXT HERE) > /tmp/FIFO 
>
>This is pretty obvious from the context and the following paragraph, but
>just to clarify for the archives: the above should be
>
>(sleep 99999&; echo YOUR TEXT HERE) > /tmp/FIFO

Actually, it should be:

(sleep 99999& echo YOUR TEXT HERE) > /tmp/FIFO

i.e., no semicolon.

But, then, 'cat <>' is better.

cgf

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