On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 01:47:56PM +0200, Thomas Maier-Komor wrote: >I don't get SIGPOLL on Cygwin in a software that runs fine on Linux and >Solaris. Is there a known issue concerning SIGPOLL and named pipes.
SIGPOLL (aka SIGIO) is not implemented in Cygwin. >Additionally, there seem to be a bug in Cygwin concerning the >concatenation of data written to a named pipe. If I open the named >pipe a second time with O_WRONLY, to make sure that there is always one >valid open input to the named pipe, the data written to the pipe from >different processes doesn't get concatenated and I have to close and >reopen the named pipe. This is in contrast to the behavior in Linux >and Solaris, and POSIX semantics. Named pipes in Cygwin 1.5.25 are only partially implemented. They should work better in 1.7.x. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
