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Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 14:38:56 -0400
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To: earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com
CC: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
In-reply-to: <20000428182512.12003.qmail@web116.yahoomail.com> (message from
	Earnie Boyd on Fri, 28 Apr 2000 11:25:12 -0700 (PDT))
Subject: Re: mkfifo
References:  <20000428182512 DOT 12003 DOT qmail AT web116 DOT yahoomail DOT com>


> I already know that mkfifo isn't supported by cygwin, not even
> stubbed.  However, the sys/stat.h file has it prototyped.  I believe
> this to be a bug in the header since the function isn't available.
> Comments?

The headers come from newlib, mkfifo() would need to come from winsup.
It's not a bug, it's just that the two packages are independent and
some discrepencies like this "just happen".

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