bi-directional named pipe

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:55:16PM +0000, Eric Blake wrote:
>The upcoming upstream Autoconf 2.64 release will introduce a new feature for 
>parallel testsuite execution, which can vastly decrease the time spent testing 
>several packages (autoconf itself, m4, tar, findutils, ...).  However, it 
>currently requires support for bi-directional named pipes.  POSIX does not 
>require this, but Linux provides it; is there any chance of implementing it in 
>cygwin?

I'm not going to perturb this code again before 1.7.1 is released.
Possibly after that but I wouldn't hold my breath.

cgf

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