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Re: /cygdrive in CVS? Time for 1.5.6 soon.
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 04:11:07PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 04:00:51PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 02:28:20PM -0500, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
>> >mkfifo (const char *path, mode_t mode)
>> >{
>> > return (mknod (path, (mode_t) (mode|S_IFIFO), 0));
>> >}
>> >
>> >It seems to work here on win2k, and certainly anything's better then
>> >being a stub that returns ENOSYS? I'm sure it isn't close to being as
>> >robust as BSD's or Linux's mkfifo and it's a bit kludgy, but it's a
>> >start, isn't it?
>>
>> Fifos don't work. Why add a function now? This *should* be returning a
>> stub that returns ENOSYS. I should turn off my aborted try at getting
>> this working in cygwin until fifos work. Adding a mkfifo call now is
>> extremely premature.
>
>Regardless of mknod working or not, wouldn't it be nevertheless correct
>to implement mkfifo as call to mknod and let mknod deal with it entirely?
>This way, both functions behave identically, returning ENOSYS as long
>as FIFOs aren't implemented, returning something useful after it's
>implemented?
I will implement mkfifo when there is a real fifo implementation.
cgf