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From: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To: <cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com>
Subject: fifos and named pipes
Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 09:06:14 +1000
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Just thought you'd like to know: named pipes under win32 (which I was
considering using for the NT implementations) don't have the same
semantics as under openBSD.... so I'm going with my roll-your-own
approach .

Rob