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Re: /cygdrive in CVS? Time for 1.5.6 soon.
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:28:20PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>mkfifo (const char *path, mode_t mode)
>{
> return (mknod (path, (mode_t) (mode|S_IFIFO), 0));
>}
>
>It seems to work here on win2k, and certainly anything's better then
>being a stub that returns ENOSYS? I'm sure it isn't close to being as
>robust as BSD's or Linux's mkfifo and it's a bit kludgy, but it's a
>start, isn't it?
Fifos don't work. Why add a function now? This *should* be returning a
stub that returns ENOSYS. I should turn off my aborted try at getting
this working in cygwin until fifos work. Adding a mkfifo call now is
extremely premature.
cgf