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Re: Cygwin and mkfifo status question
- From: Brian Ford <ford at vss dot fsi dot com>
- To: Andrews Harold G II Maj USAFA/DFCS <Harold dot Andrews at USAFA dot af dot mil>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2004 17:26:47 -0600 (CST)
- Subject: Re: Cygwin and mkfifo status question
- References: <E39871CD3D39D711AAE9000347DEE4C40436989C@FSXQPZ13>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
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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