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From: ejfried AT california DOT sandia DOT gov (friedman_hill ernest j)
Message-Id: <200102152151.NAA20612@california.sandia.gov>
Subject: Re: Named pipe on Cygwin/NT?
In-Reply-To: <4.3.1.2.20010215154721.04a6fa80@pop.ma.ultranet.com> from "Larry
 Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" at "Feb 15, 2001 03:50:16 pm"
To: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 13:51:35 -0800 (PST)
CC: soren AT wonderstorm DOT com, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
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NT named pipes don't have the right semantics to be used to implement
UNIX named pipes. As far as I was able to figure out, they would need
to be implemented from scratch based on shared memory areas.

At one time, I started to work on an implementation of this. I
couldn't get any advice regarding cygwin internals (you know what
happens if you email Chris directly) and I couldn't post to the
mailing list because of the damn ORBS filter, so I eventually bagged
it. Have since chucked NT as well and work on Linux full time. Much
happier. Emulate Windows when necessary, instead of the other way
around. 


I think Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> At 02:21 PM 2/15/2001, Soren Andersen wrote:
> >REALLY sorry if this is an FAQ.
> >
> >I want to create a named pipe on WindowsNT in Cygwin and I don't know 
> >how, or if.
> >
> >Could somebody post a brief example if it can be done? Or refer me to a url 
> >that will explain named pipes and how they work, and what might be 
> >different / gotchas on NT? My W3 searches aren't yeilding anything like 
> >what I need.
> 
> 
> 
> Hm, a search of the mail archives with the term "named pipe" turned up 80 
> matches, the first 2 of which state that named pipes aren't supported in 
> Cygwin.  I'm sure you can find some documentation in the MSDN which gives
> you an example of named pipes on NT.  One of the hits I got in the mail
> archives suggested this as well.
> 
> 
> 
>   
> 
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> RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
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