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Re: Accessing fifo pipes from windows programs


On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 01:16:03PM +0200, Philipp wrote:
>I have some problems accessing a fifo file from my Java program.  Fifos
>work correctly with cygwin tools, example:

Right.  fifos are Cygwin inventions.

>How can I access the named pipe correctly from my Java program?
>Correctly means, that writing in the Java blocks while nobody is
>listening.  Thanks for your answers.

You can't without a lot of work.  These are cygwin entities.  Regular
Windows programs have no idea what they are.

cgf

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