diff -up winsup.orig/cygwin/select.cc winsup/cygwin/select.cc
--- winsup.orig/cygwin/select.cc	Sun Mar 12 06:30:23 2000
+++ winsup/cygwin/select.cc	Mon Mar 13 14:29:41 2000
@@ -426,7 +426,8 @@ peek_pipe (select_record *s, int ignra)
 	}
     }
 
-  if (!PeekNamedPipe (h, NULL, 0, NULL, (DWORD *) &n, NULL))
+  if (fh->get_device () != FH_PIPEW &&
+      !PeekNamedPipe (h, NULL, 0, NULL, (DWORD *) &n, NULL))
     {
       select_printf ("%s, PeekNamedPipe failed, %E", fh->get_name ());
       n = -1;
diff -up winsup.orig/cygwin/fhandler.cc winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc
--- winsup.orig/cygwin/fhandler.cc	Sun Mar 12 06:30:21 2000
+++ winsup/cygwin/fhandler.cc	Mon Mar 13 14:24:38 2000
@@ -1456,8 +1456,8 @@ fhandler_dev_null::dump (void)
 /**********************************************************************/
 /* fhandler_pipe */
 
-fhandler_pipe::fhandler_pipe (const char *name) :
-	fhandler_base (FH_PIPE, name)
+fhandler_pipe::fhandler_pipe (const DWORD devtype, const char *name) :
+	fhandler_base (devtype, name)
 {
   set_cb (sizeof *this);
 }
diff -up winsup.orig/cygwin/fhandler.h winsup/cygwin/fhandler.h
--- winsup.orig/cygwin/fhandler.h	Sun Mar 12 06:30:21 2000
+++ winsup/cygwin/fhandler.h	Mon Mar 13 14:30:25 2000
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ public:
 class fhandler_pipe: public fhandler_base
 {
 public:
-  fhandler_pipe (const char *name = 0);
+  fhandler_pipe (const DWORD devtype, const char *name = 0);
   off_t lseek (off_t offset, int whence);
   /* This strange test is due to the fact that we can't rely on
      Windows shells to "do the right thing" with pipes.  Apparently
diff -up winsup.orig/cygwin/hinfo.cc winsup/cygwin/hinfo.cc
--- winsup.orig/cygwin/hinfo.cc	Tue Mar 07 05:33:51 2000
+++ winsup/cygwin/hinfo.cc	Mon Mar 13 14:33:32 2000
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ hinfo::build_fhandler (int fd, DWORD dev
       case FH_PIPE:
       case FH_PIPER:
       case FH_PIPEW:
-	fh = new (buf) fhandler_pipe (name);
+	fh = new (buf) fhandler_pipe (dev & FH_DEVMASK, name);
 	break;
       case FH_SOCKET:
 	fh = new (buf) fhandler_socket (name);
diff -up winsup.orig/cygwin/pipe.cc winsup/cygwin/pipe.cc
--- winsup.orig/cygwin/pipe.cc	Thu Feb 24 04:55:15 2000
+++ winsup/cygwin/pipe.cc	Mon Mar 13 14:27:04 2000
@@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ make_pipe (int fildes[2], unsigned int p
     __seterrno ();
   else
     {
-      fhandler_base *fhr = dtable.build_fhandler (fdr, FH_PIPE, "/dev/piper");
-      fhandler_base *fhw = dtable.build_fhandler (fdw, FH_PIPE, "/dev/pipew");
+      fhandler_base *fhr = dtable.build_fhandler (fdr, FH_PIPER, "/dev/piper");
+      fhandler_base *fhw = dtable.build_fhandler (fdw, FH_PIPEW, "/dev/pipew");
 
       int binmode = mode & O_TEXT ? 0 : 1;
       fhr->init (r, GENERIC_READ, binmode);