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From: ejfried AT california DOT sandia DOT gov (friedman_hill ernest j)
Message-Id: <200109282216.PAA15155@california.sandia.gov>
Subject: Re: qmail-1.03: any volunteers?!
In-Reply-To: <3BB50D84.20049.858F0A@localhost> from "Gerrit P. Haase" at "Sep
 28, 2001 11:53:40 pm"
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:16:27 -0700 (PDT)
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Here's the begining of a simple mkfifo implementation for Cygwin.  I
did this about a year ago. I went so far as to get the paperwork
approved to let me sign this over to Cygnus. I tried to get some help
from this list on how to integrate it with Cygwin, but was met with
sufficiently rude and unhelpful responses that I abandoned the project
(I suspect this happens to quite a few folks who are interested in
contributing, but don't have the free time to devote to untangling the
Cygwin "kernel" source themselves. But I digress...)

You can't use Windows named pipes to implement UNIX fifos -- the
semantics are just too different.

Anyway, anyone who would like to try their hand at implementing fifos
may feel free to use this as a starting point. 


I think Gerrit P. Haase wrote:

> The fifo's is the only thing fast enough to get off 500000 mails a day on
> an old P90 box with 16MB RAM (only possible with linux:)! 

....

> There are also named pipes at in windows, maybe they can be assimilated?
> (Are we Borg enough to assimilate?)
> 


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Ernest Friedman-Hill  
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