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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 14:48:03 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: Re: Looking for alternative to mkfifo
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In-Reply-To: <DOECLICJBDKGHMENFBLNMEHKCAAA.doug.hillmer@innovisiontv.com>; from doug.hillmer@innovisiontv.com on Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:09:09PM -0800

On Wed, Jan 17, 2001 at 01:09:09PM -0800, Doug Hillmer wrote:
> 
> I have a shell script that uses mkfifo which comes back
> and says it is not supported in cygwin.
> 
> I searched the mail list archives and the same question
> was posted back in 1997, but I was wondering if the answer
> is still the same? Is there a working version of mkfifo around
> anywhere?

Nope. Named pipes still aren't supported by Cygwin. You can
try using Unix sockets instead.

> Can anybody show me (being Unix literate but windoze ignorant)
> an alternative way to do this under windoze 2000?

If you _must_ use named pipes you will need to give up the
Windows ignorance and learn the Win32 API instead.

Corinna

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