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 -- -- Eric Blake eblake <at> redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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 -- -- Eric Blake eblake <at> redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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 <at> #$*" feeling when I saw it right?With all of the work I've put into fifos in the last couple of releases I thought you'd found something new. It *is* nice to see Linux having problems too. They are a lot trickier than they seem. cgf
On Jul 16 12:37, Christopher Faylor wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:02:18AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > >On 07/16/2012 08:01 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > >> It's nice to know that Cygwin isn't the only platform plagued with fifo > >> woes; here's a bug in the Linux kernel handling of fifos that manifested > >> itself when dash was used to run the git testsuite: > >> > >> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash > > > >It helps if I post the right link: > > > >http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/745/focus=763 > > You realize that your email subject gave me a nice sinking "Oh <at> #$*" > feeling when I saw it right?
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