Re: CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe. (merge back into trunk please)

["Larry Hall (Cygwin)" <reply-to-list-only-lh at cygwin dot com>]

On 4/21/2010 8:42 PM, will.dutt wrote:
> Christopher Faylor-8 wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:01:21AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 04:10:28PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> > > > On 06/04/2010 15:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 07:55:19AM -0400, George Barrick wrote:
> >
> > > Thanks for tracking it down but the test case is probably simpler than
> this.
> > >   $ mkfifo /tmp/fifo
> > >   $ cat /tmp/fifo
> > >
> > > That demonstrates the problem.  I'll fix this ASAP.
> >
> > This should be fixed in the latest snapshot:
> >
> > http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>
> when will this snapshot be incorporated back into cygwin, i also rely on
> fifo working and for my latest 1.7.x install i had to source this snapshot > to get it working.

<http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-announce/2010-04/msg00005.html>

Watch the announce list when you're looking for new releases.  In your case,
there was a release the next day with the fix.  There's also been another
release since then.

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