Cygwin and mkfifo status question

[Brian Ford]

On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Andrews Harold G II Maj USAFA/DFCS wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was hoping to use mkfifo (4.1 according to mkinfo --version) for something
> earlier today in Cygwin (1.5.7-1).  I got the following error message:
>
> $ mkfifo test
> mkfifo: cannot create fifo ``test'': Function not implemented
>
> Doing some additional research I discovered that this is not yet implemented
> in Cygwin, though as of last August there seemed to be some talk of
> completing it before the end of last year
> (http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/2003-08/msg01145.html).  It now being
> next year, I was wondering if I've done something wrong or if other things
> were more important last year.  Thanks.
>
The latter.

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