Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <00af01c26986$809815a0$5300a8c0@bowsher.foo> From: "Max Bowsher" To: "Lavelle, Neil" , References: <8AEA6B34A5AF2D4ABECB4E9351DAE6982310D4 AT S1000 DOT orchestream DOT com> Subject: Re: mkfifo - anyone got a working version ? Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2002 21:03:27 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 From: "Lavelle, Neil" > It's documented that the latest release of cygwin does not support mkfifo (I > certainly get "Function not implemented" when I call it), however it also > seems from a number of relatively old (> 1 year) discussions I've read on > the developers list that there may be a working prototype or two out there, > or indeed that there may be a fully completed version. I had a go at integrating Robert Collins' old FIFO patch into current Cygwin, but soon realized I would need to develop a better understanding Cygwin internals to complete it. I'm starting university in a few days... maybe come Christmas break :-) Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/