From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-03-29T23:44:23+09:00
Subject: Re: mkfifo on windows

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Dan Doel wrote:

> 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.

this look promising.  i was under the impression thet fifo's were a posix
thing and so at least some of the newer windwows would support them.  that
capability make possible interesting maipulations of processes stdout and
stderr's w/o using a fork...

-a
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