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

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Mark Levedahl <mlevedahl@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 14, 2013, 15:38 UTC
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On 07/13/2013 08:57 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> I'm not sure I follow. Are you saying Windows users would never want 
> to access Subversion repositories? Thanks, Jonathan

Quite the contrary. SVN and git both work on Windows without having POSIX FIFOs - Windows does have FIFOS, but the semantics are different than POSIX and this is why Cygwin's do not work as needed. There is no problem having a subprocess with stdin and stdout redirected via anonymous pipes to the parent: this is how git runs sub commands and works fine. I'm just questioning why this same construct cannot be used for the test harness.

Mark
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  5. Mark LevedahlJul 8, 2013
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