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Problem with <> redirection to named pipe
- From: Nikolay Shirokovskiy <nshyrokovskiy at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:53:14 +0300
- Subject: Problem with <> redirection to named pipe
Hello.
When I try:
> mkfifo fifo
> exec 5<>fifo
I get "Device or resource busy" error message. On linux distro these
lines work well.
I made some browising through archives and encountered notices that
FIFOs implementation
in Cygwin is incomplete. Is this the cause or I miss something?
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