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Re: mkfifo export
- To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
- Subject: Re: mkfifo export
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf at redhat dot com>
- Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 23:32:51 -0500
- References: <012201c0b6b1$6b2afd60$0200a8c0@lifelesswks>
- Reply-To: cygwin-developers at cygwin dot com
On Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 09:31:06PM +1000, Robert Collins wrote:
>Chris,
> I have a basic mkfifo exported that just returns ENOSYS... Would you
>like a trivial patch to get that into cygwin - so that the next release
>of fileutils will actually try to call it rather than mknod? (I've tried
>building fileutils and it finds the mkfifo..
>
>Or would you rather wait for the whole thing? I plan to fix mknod up to
>the extent that it can create fifo's too, so fileutils probably doesn't
>_need_ a re-release.
Hmm. I guess exporting a mkfifo that does nothing is ok for now.
cgf