Cary Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have an existing unix application that makes extensive use of named > pipes: > > mknod pipe p > > and shell scripts and 'C' programs that read and write pipes. > Messages must be read in order that they were written to pipe. As > well many processes must be able to write to a pipe and not have > their messages intermingled. > > Does anyone have a solution for this for cygwin?
Unix named pipes / FIFOs haven't been implemented for Cygwin. No one has got around to it. > Any help would be appreciated. > > NOTE: The pipes don't have to be named (I can handle that separately). I don't believe there is any way to have multiple processes write to an anonymous pipe. > BTW the other posix emulators like Interix now SFU and MKS support > these kinds of pipes, so it should be easy right? As I said above, no one has gotten round to it. > How does the /dev/ttyX file work. Cygwin notices access to certain 'files' and does clever things with them. For more detail: "Use the source, Luke!". > In a bash window I can echo hello >> /dev/tty or /dev/ttyM, where M is my tty, and I get hello on my >> screen, but > I can't echo hello >/dev/ttyN where N is another terminal, I get > /dev/ttyN invalid argument. Strange - works for me. Max. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
