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Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs

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Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 7, 2013, 00:55 UTC
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Mark Levedahl wrote:
> Do not use FIFOs on cygwin, they do not work. Cygwin includes
> coreutils, so has mkfifo, and that command does something. However,
> the resultant named pipe is known (on the Cygwin mailing list at
> least) to not work correctly.

Hm. How would you recommend going about writing a script that takes output from a command, transforms it, and then feeds it back into that command's input? Are sockets a more reliable way to do this kind of IPC on Cygwin?

See reinit_git and try_dump from t9010-svn-fe.sh for context.

Thanks, Jonathan

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