Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <3AF9983C.A31310D7@etr-usa.com> Date: Wed, 09 May 2001 13:19:24 -0600 From: Warren Young Organization: -ENOENT X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Cygwin-L Subject: Re: mkfifo (GNU fileutils) 4.0 References: <3AF9561A.23856.370587@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit "Gerrit P. Haase" wrote: > > mkfifo (GNU fileutils) 4.0 > > I got an error using mkfifo: > mkfifo: cannot make fifo ... : Function not implemented > > So, what is mkfifo good for? [tangent@MEGATON tangent]$ man mkfifo |head -15 MKFIFO(1) FSF MKFIFO(1) NAME mkfifo - make FIFOs (named pipes) SYNOPSIS mkfifo [OPTION] NAME... DESCRIPTION Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs. ------------------------------------------------------------ It's probably only included with Cygwin since it's part of the fileutils distro. I'll bet you could rescue the old symlink code to make a fair FIFO emulation, if you really wanted them. -- = Warren -- Video articles: http://www.cyberport.com/~tangent/video/ = = ICBM Address: 36.8274040 N, 108.0204086 W, alt. 1714m -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple