CygWin-1.7.3-1 fails to provide pipe.
Marco Atzeri
marco_atzeri@yahoo.it
Wed Apr 7 01:57:00 GMT 2010
--- Mar 6/4/10, Christopher Faylor ha scritto:
> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 11:01:21AM
> -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 04:10:28PM +0100, Dave Korn
> wrote:
> >>On 06/04/2010 15:15, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Apr 06, 2010 at 07:55:19AM -0400,
> George Barrick wrote:
> >>>> What I am suggesting is that the new
> cygwin.dll has difficulties
> >>>> implementing the kind of pipe that octave
> uses to send its graphing
> >>>> commands to gnuplot. The specific
> details of the pipe that serves as
> >>>> an example of this can be seen in the
> __gnuplot_get_var__.m script
> >>>> inside the GNU Octave package.
> >>>
> >>> Sorry but unless someone can narrow this down
> to a test case which
> >>> does not requier installing gnuplot I don't
> intend on investigating
> >>> this.
> >>
> >> Here ya go. I took a look at the
> octave module, and narrowed it down to the
> >>equivalent C testcase attached, which appears to
> reproduce the same failure
> >>mode for me:
> >
> >Thanks for tracking it down but the test case is
> probably simpler than this.
> >
> > $ mkfifo /tmp/fifo
> > $ cat /tmp/fifo
> >
> >That demonstrates the problem. I'll fix this
> ASAP.
>
> This should be fixed in the latest snapshot:
>
> http://cygwin.com/snapshots/
>
> cgf
>
octave plotting is fine with 20100406
Thanks
Marco
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