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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html