mkfifo -where is it ?

[Robert Collins]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacek Trzcinski" <jacek@certum.pl>
To: "Robert Collins" <robert.collins@itdomain.com.au>;
<cygwin@cygwin.com>
Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: mkfifo -where is it ?


>
> You are right but in my case (Windows NT 4.0) there is no problems
with
> named pipes so
> implement it in cygwin seems to be easy matter isn't it ?
>
> Jacek


Not "easy". Not _hard_ either, but no easier than for 95 (you can't use
the NT built in named pipes because the semantics of named pipes in unix
differ from NT. See the archives of cygwin-developers for some
discussions about this.)

Rob


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