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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 14, 2013, 00:59 UTC
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Torsten Bögershausen wrote:
> Disabling PIPE under cygwin seems to be the right thing to do,
> or do I miss something ?

If fifos don't work on Cygwin, disabling that test prerequisite is defintely the right thing to do. I was taking the opportunity to find out whether and how git could be tweaked to avoid needing fifos when setting pipes up in scripts.

Jonathan
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  1. test-lib.sh - cygwin does not have usable FIFOsMark Levedahl, Jul 4, 2013
  2. Jonathan NiederJul 7, 2013
  3. Torsten BögershausenJul 7, 2013
  4. Jonathan NiederJul 14, 2013
  5. Mark LevedahlJul 8, 2013
  6. Jonathan NiederJul 14, 2013
  7. Mark LevedahlJul 14, 2013

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