Subject: Re: mkfifo (GNU fileutils) 4.0
From: Warren Young <[email-masked]>
To: Cygwin-L <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 13:19:24 -0600

"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
> 
> mkfifo (GNU fileutils) 4.0
> 
> I got an error using mkfifo:
> mkfifo: cannot make fifo ... : Function not implemented
> 
> So, what is mkfifo good for?

[tangent@MEGATON tangent]$ man mkfifo |head -15

MKFIFO(1)                      FSF                      MKFIFO(1)

NAME
       mkfifo - make FIFOs (named pipes)

SYNOPSIS
       mkfifo [OPTION] NAME...

DESCRIPTION
       Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs.

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It's probably only included with Cygwin since it's part of the fileutils
distro.

I'll bet you could rescue the old symlink code to make a fair FIFO
emulation, if you really wanted them.
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