mkfifo (GNU fileutils) 4.0

Wed May 9 12:19:00 GMT 2001

"Gerrit P. Haase" wrote:
>> mkfifo (GNU fileutils) 4.0
>> I got an error using mkfifo:
> mkfifo: cannot make fifo ... : Function not implemented
>> So, what is mkfifo good for?

[tangent@MEGATON tangent]$ man mkfifo |head -15
MKFIFO(1) FSF MKFIFO(1)
NAME
 mkfifo - make FIFOs (named pipes)
SYNOPSIS
 mkfifo [OPTION] NAME...
DESCRIPTION
 Create named pipes (FIFOs) with the given NAMEs.
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It's probably only included with Cygwin since it's part of the fileutils
distro.
I'll bet you could rescue the old symlink code to make a fair FIFO
emulation, if you really wanted them.
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