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diff --git a/winsup/cygwin/DevNotes b/winsup/cygwin/DevNotes index 11a01df57..5ad1ab8a2 100644 --- a/winsup/cygwin/DevNotes +++ b/winsup/cygwin/DevNotes @@ -1,3 +1,22 @@ +2012-05-12 cgf-000005 + +<1.7.16> +- Fix pipe creation problem which manifested as a problem creating a +fifo. Fixes: http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-05/msg00253.html +</1.7.16> + +My change on 2012-04-28 introduced a problem with fifos. The passed +in name was overwritten. This was because I wasn't properly keeping +track of the length of the generated pipe name when there was a +name passed in to fhandler_pipe::create. + +There was also another problem in fhandler_pipe::create. Since fifos +use PIPE_ACCESS_DUPLEX and PIPE_ACCESS_DUPLEX is an or'ing of +PIPE_ACCESS_INBOUND and PIPE_ACCESS_OUTBOUND, using PIPE_ACCESS_OUTBOUND +as a "never-used" option for PIPE_ADD_PID in fhandler.h was wrong. So, +fifo creation attempted to add the pid of a pipe to the name which is +wrong for fifos. + 2012-05-08 cgf-000004 The change for cgf-000003 introduced a new problem: |