From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2013 00:55:58 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOs
Message-ID: <20130707005558.GI30132@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <1372975470-13573-1-git-send-email-mlevedahl@gmail.com>

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