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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 08:36:40 +0200
From: Jacek Trzcinski <jacek AT certum DOT pl>
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To: Robert Collins <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: mkfifo -where is it ?
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You are right but in my case (Windows NT 4.0) there is no problems with
named pipes so
implement it in cygwin seems to be easy matter isn't it ?

Jacek
Robert Collins wrote:
> 
> Cygwin does not currently support fifo's. As you may know a fifo is
> essentially a named pipe, and Win9x doesn't support named pipes. I have
> an alpha implementation of fifos in my working directory, that
> implements the pipe using shared memory and should work on win95, but
> it's got a little problem with fork() at the moment. Until I get that
> tracked down, or someone else implements fifo's Cygwin really does not
> support mkfifo. If you are interested in implementing fifos an
> alternative route and potentially better route would be to implement
> fifos using paired anonymous pipes.
> 
> Rob
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jacek Trzcinski [mailto:jacek AT certum DOT pl]
> > Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 3:53 PM
> > To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
> > Subject: mkfifo -where is it ?
> >
> >
> > Hi !
> > Recently I decided to build xwpe packet taken from Red Hat
> > Power Tools.
> > Everything seems to work... but without debuging. To build
> > packet I had
> > to comment
> > few lines in one module which calls "mkfifo" function. Utilizing xwpe
> > without debuging is
> > without sense. As I inspected there are calls to "mkfifo" in different
> > files of cygwin
> > distribution but this function seems to be absent in any
> > dll's or other
> > library of cygwin. There is only mkfifo.exe in /usr/bin.
> > Does cygwin really not support mkfifo ?
> >
> > Jacek
> >
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