Mail Archives: cygwin-developers/1998/05/21/11:21:58
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >Is anybody working on FIFO implementation?
>
> How could you do this in Windows? A fifo lives on a filesystem, right?
>
Yes.
> I guess you could do something like add an option to 'mount' which
> identifies a file as a pipe which could be connected to. Hmm...
No :-) FIFO file is a "system" file with a magic cookie and a predefined
size (sizeof(cookie)+sizeof(control datas)+sizeof(fifo buffer)). fstat()
call will distinguish between ordinary files and fifoes.
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Sergey Okhapkin, http://www.lexa.ru/sos
Moscow, Russia
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