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Re: Named pipe on Cygwin/NT?


At 05:19 PM 2/15/2001, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 03:50:16PM -0500, Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc) wrote:
> >At 02:21 PM 2/15/2001, Soren Andersen wrote:
> >>REALLY sorry if this is an FAQ.
> >>
> >>I want to create a named pipe on WindowsNT in Cygwin and I don't know 
> >>how, or if.
> >>
> >>Could somebody post a brief example if it can be done? Or refer me to a url 
> >>that will explain named pipes and how they work, and what might be 
> >>different / gotchas on NT? My W3 searches aren't yeilding anything like 
> >>what I need.
> >
> >Hm, a search of the mail archives with the term "named pipe" turned up 80 
> >matches, the first 2 of which state that named pipes aren't supported in 
> >Cygwin.  I'm sure you can find some documentation in the MSDN which gives
> >you an example of named pipes on NT.  One of the hits I got in the mail
> >archives suggested this as well.
>
>Larry, I think I'm seeing a valuable new business opportunity for you here.
>
>The only problem that I can foresee is the inevitable "How do I contact
>Larry Hall, Inc.  to have them do a mailing list search for me?" email
>that will surely result when you announce your new company...


Probably right.  There goes my millions...



>cgf
>(smiley intentionally deleted due to obvious nature of this post)



LOL




Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
118 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX



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