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: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:27:33 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: mkfifo -where is it ? Message-ID: <20010420092733.V12557@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3ADFD8F8.1BB2FD5@certum.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3ADFD8F8.1BB2FD5@certum.pl>; from jacek@certum.pl on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:36:40AM +0200 On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:36:40AM +0200, Jacek Trzcinski wrote: > > You are right but in my case (Windows NT 4.0) there is no problems with > named pipes so > implement it in cygwin seems to be easy matter isn't it ? It is a problem, nevertheless. The NT named pipes implementation is very different from the POSIX way to do it and we don't want to exclude 9x user as far as possible. 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