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Re: fifos and named pipes
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: fifos and named pipes
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 19:19:38 -0500
- References: <01ea01c0b712$868dfb00$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 09:06:14AM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>Just thought you'd like to know: named pipes under win32 (which I was
>considering using for the NT implementations) don't have the same
>semantics as under openBSD.... so I'm going with my roll-your-own
>approach .
What about regular pipes? I suggested that you could just use those
along with some glue to duplicate handles between processes.
How do the semantics differ?
cgf