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Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2003 21:36:04 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-idd AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: named pipes
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On Thu, Aug 21, 2003 at 04:57:57PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
>Please don't confuse a quick response and a mean one.  The information
>I meant was at least the version of Cygwin you were trying out.  From
>what I recall, there is some implementation of the mkfifo() system call
>in Cygwin 1.5.* (the "test" release) -- search the list archives.

This is still waiting in the wings, actually.  It is not available for
1.5.x.  The implementation was flawed, too, since it relied on a flawed
assumption about global atoms.

Sometime this year, though...

cgf

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