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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Questions!
Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2001 13:47:03 +1000
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I have/had them fully funtional, but had problems with fork(). At that point
I didn't know enough about what cygwin fork did, and now I don't have the
time to pick it up again.

I'm happy to dust off what I have if someone wants to pick it up and run
with it.

Rob

----- Original Message -----
From: "Corinna Vinschen" <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2001 7:02 AM
Subject: Re: Questions!


> On Fri, Jul 13, 2001 at 02:28:55PM -0500, Rafael Avalos Pelayo wrote:
> > Dear Friends:
> >
> > I would like to know if with this new version there are support for
fifos
> > (named pipes), I mean mkfifo funtion is available?
>
> There have been plans to implement named pipes since more than
> two years. Robert Collins was working on sth. in the first quarter
> but it's really tricky stuff since they aren't implemented at all
> in 9x/ME and they are implemented way different from POSIX in NT/W2K.
>
> So the answer is "no" for the next Cygwin release.
>
> Just so that nobody forgets it: Patches gratefully accepted.
>
> Corinna
>
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