On 2013-07-07 02.55, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 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 t9010 needs PIPE in most test cases as a prerequisite. And if PIPE isn't available, the tests can not be run. Are you suggesting to replace the named pipes with a TCP socket? Disabling PIPE under cygwin seems to be the right thing to do, or do I miss something ? /Torsten -- 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