Problem with <> redirection to named pipe

[marco atzeri]

On 7/19/2012 8:53 AM, Nikolay Shirokovskiy wrote:
> Hello.
>
> When I try:
>
>> mkfifo fifo
>> exec 5<>fifo
>
> I get "Device or resource busy" error message. On linux distro these
> lines work well.

no error massages on latest snapshot (http://cygwin.com/snapshots/)

$ uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-6.1-WOW64 ........... 1.7.16s(0.261/5/3) 20120715 16:28:30 
i686 Cygwin

>
> I made some browising through archives and encountered notices that
> FIFOs implementation
> in Cygwin is incomplete. Is this the cause or I miss something?
>

What is your cygwin version ?

Regards
Marco



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