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Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 17:06:38 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: setup will have to wait :[
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In-Reply-To: <010c01c0b576$a93cdb00$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>; from robert.collins@itdomain.com.au on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:57:59AM +1000

On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:57:59AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>> Cygwin doesn't implement named pipes.  Isn't a fifo == a named pipe
>> anyway?
>
>Yes. I'm looking into the behaviour in more detail defore I cut code,
>but yes. My planned implementation is a shared memory region that lists
>the named pipes open on the system (maintained automagically via any
>open cygwin process), a couple of waitable objects (probably 1 semaphore
>and 1 event) per open fifo, and finally a (pick a good buffer size)
>shared memory region for doing the actual data transfer.

How about just using actual pipes?  You could duplicate handles between
processes.

I don't know if pipe semantics are the same as fifos but I suspect that
they are.

cgf