Christian Ohler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Stephen Leake, 2007-04-22:
>
>> I'm not familiar with named pipes. If you post an example that would
>> test this, I can run it to see if it works, with both Cygwin and MinGW.
>
> A simple test to check the basic named pipe features that xmtn needs
> (not full standards compliance) would be this: Open a terminal window
> and type
>
>      mkfifo a
>      cat a
>
> Open another terminal window and type
>
>      cat >a
>
> and then type a few lines of text.  Each line should appear in the
> first terminal window as you enter it.  When you hit ctrl+d on an
> empty line, both cat processes should terminate.

Ok. That works with Cygwin.

MinGW doesn't have mkfifo.

I'm happy using Cygwin, but a lot of people are not. And since
both monotone and DVC can otherwise live with MinGW, I don't think we
can require Cygwin just for this.

I have not dug into the xmtn code enough to understand why it uses
automate stdio sessions instead of single automate commands. Can you
explain? 

-- 
-- Stephe

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