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Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 10:00:44 +0100 (CET)
From: Marcos Lorenzo <marcos AT it DOT uc3m DOT es>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: mkfifo doesn't work??
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Christopher Faylor <cgf-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote [Yesterday -0500]

   CF > On Mon, Nov 11, 2002 at 07:08:17PM +0100, Marcos Lorenzo wrote:
   CF > >mkfifo version 4.1 doesn't work?
   CF >
   CF > No.
   CF >
   CF > >Do I need to update fileutils to get this function implemented?
   CF >
   CF > No.
   CF >
   CF > >I'm really surprised, why is there an executable mkfifo if it's not
   CF > >implemented?
   CF >
   CF > Meanness.
   CF >
   CF > cgf

Well I expected more verbosity... I mean why is this not implemented? NTFS
restrictions? Will it be implemented in the future?

I have a backup script that uses mkfifo. Obviously it is ported from a
LinBox and I wanted to use it on cygwin.


m4c.


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