named pipes under cygwin

Christopher Faylor cgf-no-personal-reply-please@cygwin.com
Thu Oct 21 17:36:00 GMT 2004


On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:04:17AM +0200, Danilo Turina wrote:
>I don't know.
>For sure you have to update the package containing mkfifo:
>
>	$ cygcheck -f `which mkfifo`
>	fileutils-4.1-2
>	
>But, maybe, you also need the latest version of the Cygwin DLL (don't sure).

mkfifo support in cygwin is only in its preliminary stages.  It is not
guaranteed to work and probably will only even marginally work in a
snapshot.

cgf

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