Mail Archives: cygwin/2003/02/24/19:02:46
James,
As I guessed, the point is to create a named pipe (a.k.a. "fifo").
Here's what you need to (but doubtless do not want to) know:
At 01:15 2002-11-12, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 10:00:44AM +0100, Marcos Lorenzo wrote:
> > I have a backup script that uses mkfifo. Obviously it is ported from a
> > LinBox and I wanted to use it on cygwin.
>
>It won't help since there are no named pipes (yet) in Cygwin.
>
>Corinna
>
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Randall Schulz
At 15:13 2003-02-24, james DOT m DOT barker AT boeing DOT com wrote:
>Here's the sample code that calls mknod. I always do a bad job of
>explaining in words what I'm trying to accomplish. Hopefully the
>sample code does a better job of it. I'm glad to hear that plans are
>in the work to include this capability.
>
>A series of "write" commands are made to gvFD to communicate with geomview.
>
>Thanks again
>
>Jim Barker
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