Options for IPC between bash processes under cygwin

[Jon Seymour]

I'd like to dispatch commands from one light-weight bash process to a
longer running bash process which takes longer to initialize [ I have
a _big_ library of bash functions ].

On Linux or any reasonable OS, I could do this remote dispatch easily
with named pipes, but these don't exist on cygwin.

I'd be interested to know if there are any good solutions to this
problem already in existence.

jon.

[Eric Blake]

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According to Jon Seymour on 12/4/2009 4:00 PM:

> On Linux or any reasonable OS, I could do this remote dispatch easily
> with named pipes, but these don't exist on cygwin.

That's where you're wrong. Named pipes DO exist on cygwin, although there
are still some bugs being hammered out when trying to have multiple
simultaneous writers to a named pipe. Also, whereas you can do <>pipe on
Linux, that won't work on cygwin (where named pipes must be read-only owr
write-only).

- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!

Eric Blake eb...@byu.net
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[Jon Seymour]

Oh, cool. Thanks for correcting me!

jon.