From: Dan Doel <djd15@...>
Date: 2004-03-29T22:49:38+09:00
Subject: Re: mkfifo on windows

On Monday 29 March 2004 6:34 am, Robert Klemme wrote:
> This is what cygwin says:
>
> 13:28:30 [temp]: mkfifo XXXXXX
> mkfifo: cannot create fifo ``XXXXXX'': Function not implemented
>
> And I thought there were named pipes on Windows.  Hm...  Nobu, what do you
> say?  Usually you know these things... :-)

This may be of some help:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/ipc/base/createnamedpipe.asp

MSDN reference on the CreateNamedPipe function.

There's links at the bottom to other named pipe related functions, as well as
a reference on windows pipes in general.

I didn't look it over too much, but the fact that there's special functions to
work with named pipes makes me wonder if they work like Unix named pipes.
There's a special function just to connect to them, so I don't know if they
work just like files.

Anyhow, if worse came to worst, one could probably use that to write a
mkfifo.  Hope this helps.

- Dan