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 From: "Gerrit P. Haase" Organization: Esse keine toten Tiere To: Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 09:02:59 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: AW: ksh and AT&T's ast tools Message-ID: <3B29CF43.28556.70FD096@localhost> In-reply-to: References: <3B28F2E5.31152.3B2FDEC@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12cDE) Karsten Fleischer schrieb am 2001-06-15, 2:44: > > I hope they will contribute to cygwin, e.g the mkfifo() function needs to > > be implemented... > > No, this is not a part of the ast library nor ksh. David Korn's UWIN > posix.dll implements the mkfifo() function but I don't know how he did it. > ast is meant to be a replacement for many UNIX tools like the GNU > file/text/findutils etc. based on a highly flexible shared library. > > UWIN and Cygwin kernel functions seem to be implemented very differently, so > it's unlikely that AT&T folks contribute to Cygwin's internal functions. Well, he/they know how to do it, surely it is a quick hack for them:-) gph -- =^..^= -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Check out: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple