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Re: qmail-1.03: any volunteers?!
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- Subject: Re: qmail-1.03: any volunteers?!
- From: ejfried at california dot sandia dot gov (friedman_hill ernest j)
- Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:16:27 -0700 (PDT)
Here's the begining of a simple mkfifo implementation for Cygwin. I
did this about a year ago. I went so far as to get the paperwork
approved to let me sign this over to Cygnus. I tried to get some help
from this list on how to integrate it with Cygwin, but was met with
sufficiently rude and unhelpful responses that I abandoned the project
(I suspect this happens to quite a few folks who are interested in
contributing, but don't have the free time to devote to untangling the
Cygwin "kernel" source themselves. But I digress...)
You can't use Windows named pipes to implement UNIX fifos -- the
semantics are just too different.
Anyway, anyone who would like to try their hand at implementing fifos
may feel free to use this as a starting point.
I think Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> The fifo's is the only thing fast enough to get off 500000 mails a day on
> an old P90 box with 16MB RAM (only possible with linux:)!
....
> There are also named pipes at in windows, maybe they can be assimilated?
> (Are we Borg enough to assimilate?)
>
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