Hi,

I am trying to use FIFO's instead of open-process to communicate with a separate process (since open-process doesn't work on MinGW for the moment). It seems that there is also some problems with FIFO's.

On MacOSX 10.4 (Gambit-Cb14) I get:

(let ((fifo-in (create-fifo "/tmp/myfifo")))

(define p (open-output-file "/tmp/myfifo"))

(write '(12 3 4) p))

*** ERROR IN (stdin)@27.13 -- Device not configured

(open-output-file "/tmp/myfifo")

On MinGW (Gambit-Cb14) I get:

*** ERROR IN (stdin)@13.13 -- Unknown Error

(create-fifo "/tmp/myfifo")

When I do it step by step in the gsi interpreter on MacOSX it works!!!

What am I missing?

> (create-fifo "/tmp/myfifo")

> (define p (open-output-file "/tmp/myfifo")

> (write '(12 3 4) p))

Thank you,

Francois Magnan