Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:48:03 +0100 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin Subject: Re: Looking for alternative to mkfifo Message-ID: <20010118144803.C4318@cobold.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from doug.hillmer@innovisiontv.com on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:09:09PM -0800 On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:09:09PM -0800, Doug Hillmer wrote: > > I have a shell script that uses mkfifo which comes back > and says it is not supported in cygwin. > > I searched the mail list archives and the same question > was posted back in 1997, but I was wondering if the answer > is still the same? Is there a working version of mkfifo around > anywhere? Nope. Named pipes still aren't supported by Cygwin. You can try using Unix sockets instead. > Can anybody show me (being Unix literate but windoze ignorant) > an alternative way to do this under windoze 2000? If you _must_ use named pipes you will need to give up the Windows ignorance and learn the Win32 API instead. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple