qmail-1.03: any volunteers?!

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 11:30:24AM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > Stipe Tolj schrieb am 2001-09-28 10:57:
> 
> >> Jaaaaaaa, me:-)
> >> My main interest is to see how you substituted mkfifo functions
> >> which were my main problems when trying to build qmail and friends.
> >
> >hmm, haven done any substitution at all :))
> 
> Oops, maybe there are none needed?  I don't remeber exactely.
> Maybe there are some needed in daemontools or djbdns which
> I tried to port as first.
> 
> >at least this was my first attempt to get things going and to care
> >about faults later, even if this is not state of the art.
> >
> >Have there been any mkfifo() workarounds for cygwin available, they
> >may be incorporated here?
> 
> Unfortunately not that I'm aware of. And I have no idea how to 
> do this. Was it Rob Collins who has some pre-implementation of
> mkfifo in his drawer?

That will take time.  You should going to workaround that by
implementing another N-1 communication method.  What about
a AF_UNIX socket listener?

Corinna

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