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, 28 Sep 2001 12:14:06 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: qmail-1.03: any volunteers?! Message-ID: <20010928121406.F23605@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <3BB43B67.6DC904F8@wapme-systems.de> <3BB45F50.30184.3BA1879@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3BB45F50.30184.3BA1879@localhost>; from freeweb@nyckelpiga.de on Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 11:30:24AM +0200 On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 11:30:24AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote: > > Stipe Tolj schrieb am 2001-09-28 10:57: > > >> Jaaaaaaa, me:-) > >> My main interest is to see how you substituted mkfifo functions > >> which were my main problems when trying to build qmail and friends. > > > >hmm, haven done any substitution at all :)) > > Oops, maybe there are none needed? I don't remeber exactely. > Maybe there are some needed in daemontools or djbdns which > I tried to port as first. > > >at least this was my first attempt to get things going and to care > >about faults later, even if this is not state of the art. > > > >Have there been any mkfifo() workarounds for cygwin available, they > >may be incorporated here? > > Unfortunately not that I'm aware of. And I have no idea how to > do this. Was it Rob Collins who has some pre-implementation of > mkfifo in his drawer? That will take time. You should going to workaround that by implementing another N-1 communication method. What about a AF_UNIX socket listener? Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Developer mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/