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Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 10:39:31 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com>
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Subject: Re: named pipes under cygwin
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On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:04:17AM +0200, Danilo Turina wrote:
>I don't know.
>For sure you have to update the package containing mkfifo:
>
>	$ cygcheck -f `which mkfifo`
>	fileutils-4.1-2
>	
>But, maybe, you also need the latest version of the Cygwin DLL (don't sure).

mkfifo support in cygwin is only in its preliminary stages.  It is not
guaranteed to work and probably will only even marginally work in a
snapshot.

cgf

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