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Re: Patch to avoid using mkfifo under cygwin
- From: Keith Seitz <keiths at redhat dot com>
- To: Mo DeJong <supermo at bayarea dot net>
- Cc: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>, Insight <insight at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:00:03 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Patch to avoid using mkfifo under cygwin
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> Given that this is something that will just magically work when the cygwin
> DLL is updated, I don't think autoconf is the right way to go.
Doh! I overlooked that.
>
> What's wrong with the current code which returns an error when mkfifo fails?
> That seems pretty clear to me.
Hmmm.. So mkfifo is defined in cygwin, but returns errors? If so, I'd say
we should just leave it alone.
Mo, is this actually causing problems somewhere?
Keith