Re: [gentoo-alt] multilib / multijob / parallel build problem

[Greg Turner]

On Sat, Oct 5, 2013 at 4:32 PM, Greg Turner <gmt@×××××.us> wrote:
> Trust me, at the end of the day, it's a cygwin bug.  Technically
> speaking, Cygwin supports bidi pipes with the same semantics as Linux,
> but the implementation is broken.  IIRC, something as simple as "diff
> -u <(echo 1) <(echo 2)" in cygwin bash is enough to confirm that.

If I'm not mistaken, the bug has to do with getting the handles of
named pipes cloned during fork().  They are supposed to stay attached,
of course, but instead they insta-close on read... something like that
anyhow, it was a while ago I looked into it :)

-gmt