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Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 09:27:33 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: mkfifo -where is it ?
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In-Reply-To: <3ADFD8F8.1BB2FD5@certum.pl>; from jacek@certum.pl on Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:36:40AM +0200

On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 08:36:40AM +0200, Jacek Trzcinski wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

It is a problem, nevertheless. The NT named pipes implementation
is very different from the POSIX way to do it and we don't want
to exclude 9x user as far as possible.

Corinna

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