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From: "Parker, Ron" <rdparker AT butlermfg DOT com>
To: cygwin-developers AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: RE: setup will have to wait :[
Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 14:26:09 -0600
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Installable File System. Under Win3x and Win9x IFS's are used in
implementing some network protocols using IFSMgr.  The API was part of the
DDK, but with no sample code and little documentation.  Under WinNT, Win2k
and Whistler the IFS development kit is ~$900US and requires a license from
Microsoft.  As you might expect an IFS is not interchangable between NT'ish
and 95.ish 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf AT redhat DOT com]
> Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 1:49 PM
> To: Egor Duda
> Subject: Re: setup will have to wait :[
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 01:19:13PM -0600, Parker, Ron wrote:
> >> Right, so _how do we pass the fd_ to the child process? 
> I'll look into
> >> spawn and fork. Worst case though: fifos are cygwin only. 
> Best case I
> >> find some way of tricking the OS into loading up the 
> cygwin code and
> >> writing "through it". Hmm I wonder if an IFS could do this 
> (How much
> >> work did I think this was going to be ?!).
> >
> >An IFS could do it, but the last time I checked the API and 
> documentation
> >were under an NDA.
> 
> What is an IFS, Ron?
> 
> cgf
>