Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
List-Subscribe: <mailto:cygwin-subscribe AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Archive: <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/>
List-Post: <mailto:cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
List-Help: <mailto:cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com>, <http://sources.redhat.com/ml/#faqs>
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
X-Authentication-Warning: thing1-200.fsi.com: ford owned process doing -bs
Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:26:47 -0600 (CST)
From: Brian Ford <ford AT vss DOT fsi DOT com>
X-X-Sender: ford AT thing1-200
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
To: Andrews Harold G II Maj USAFA/DFCS <Harold DOT Andrews AT USAFA DOT af DOT mil>
cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Cygwin and mkfifo status question
In-Reply-To: <E39871CD3D39D711AAE9000347DEE4C40436989C@FSXQPZ13>
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0402051726100.15972@thing1-200>
References: <E39871CD3D39D711AAE9000347DEE4C40436989C AT FSXQPZ13>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
X-IsSubscribed: yes

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Andrews Harold G II Maj USAFA/DFCS wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was hoping to use mkfifo (4.1 according to mkinfo --version) for something
> earlier today in Cygwin (1.5.7-1).  I got the following error message:
>
> $ mkfifo test
> mkfifo: cannot create fifo ``test'': Function not implemented
>
> Doing some additional research I discovered that this is not yet implemented
> in Cygwin, though as of last August there seemed to be some talk of
> completing it before the end of last year
> (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg01145.html).  It now being
> next year, I was wondering if I've done something wrong or if other things
> were more important last year.  Thanks.
>
The latter.

-- 
Brian Ford
Senior Realtime Software Engineer
VITAL - Visual Simulation Systems
FlightSafety International
Phone: 314-551-8460
Fax:   314-551-8444

--
Unsubscribe info:      http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
Problem reports:       http://cygwin.com/problems.html
Documentation:         http://cygwin.com/docs.html
FAQ:                   http://cygwin.com/faq/