fifo woes

[Christopher Faylor]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 08:02:18AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
>On 07/16/2012 08:01 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> It's nice to know that Cygwin isn't the only platform plagued with fifo
>> woes; here's a bug in the Linux kernel handling of fifos that manifested
>> itself when dash was used to run the git testsuite:
>> 
>> http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash
>
>It helps if I post the right link:
>
>http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.shells.dash/745/focus=763

You realize that your email subject gave me a nice sinking "Oh @#$*"
feeling when I saw it right?  :-)

With all of the work I've put into fifos in the last couple of releases
I thought you'd found something new.  It *is* nice to see Linux having
problems too.  They are a lot trickier than they seem.

cgf