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General question on the status of named pipes
- From: Nathan Thern <nthern at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 07:51:21 -0500
- Subject: General question on the status of named pipes
I have several scripts that use named pipes for the purpose of
processing sound files. I use them on both linux and cygwin. After the
switch to cygwin1.7 I converted most of them to the use of tempfiles.
Nevertheless, when encountering old scripts in my archives or when
trying to create efficient new scripts I find myself wishing named
pipes still worked; they are one of the more powerful unix-ish
paradigms.
What's the status/priority of getting named pipes to work in 1.7? And,
just for curiosity's sake, what was the fundamental change in 1.7 that
caused them to stop working? -- They worked great in 1.5.
Cygwin is a great tool, and I'm constantly grateful for it's existence.
regards,
NT
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