Re: pipes in Octave on Windows?

[Philip Nienhuis]

Mike Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 02, 2016 at 22:36:36 +0200, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
> > OK I also confirmed this to fail on Windows 7.
> >
> > (BTW I couldn't build the octave...xz file in mxe-octave; mxe-octave first
> > complained about a failing patch (in mxe-octave). After removing the
> > offending patch the cross-build run but broke somewhere halfway.
> > So I just applied the cset you attached to a development tree and
> > cross-built that.)
> >
> > Any other suggestions I could try to help get pipe() going on Windows ?
>
> Did you happen to try in octave-cli to see if there's any difference?
>
> Failing that, looks like gnulib won't help, that's all I can contribute.

Not not yet (didn't think of it), but now that you mention:

 >> [a, b] = pipe ()
a = -1
b = -1
>>

so no luck :-(

Philip