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Re: Looking for named pipe solution in cygwin
Max, Cary,
One nit. See below.
At 10:21 2002-12-11, Max Bowsher wrote:
Cary Lewis <clewis@mobilecom.com> wrote:
> I have an existing unix application that makes extensive use of named
pipes:
>
> mknod pipe p
>
> and shell scripts and 'C' programs that read and write pipes.
> Messages must be read in order that they were written to pipe. As
> well many processes must be able to write to a pipe and not have
> their messages intermingled.
>
> Does anyone have a solution for this for cygwin?
Unix named pipes / FIFOs haven't been implemented for Cygwin. No one has
got around to it.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> NOTE: The pipes don't have to be named (I can handle that separately).
I don't believe there is any way to have multiple processes write to an
anonymous pipe.
They can if they have a process inheritance relationship whereby a
descriptor to the pipe (or socket or plain file) was inherited.
> BTW the other posix emulators like Interix now SFU and MKS support
> these kinds of pipes, so it should be easy right?
As I said above, no one has gotten round to it.
> How does the /dev/ttyX file work.
Cygwin notices access to certain 'files' and does clever things with them.
For more detail: "Use the source, Luke!".
> In a bash window I can echo hello
>> /dev/tty or /dev/ttyM, where M is my tty, and I get hello on my screen,
>> but I can't echo hello >/dev/ttyN where N is another terminal, I get
> /dev/ttyN invalid argument.
Strange - works for me.
Max.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
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