> You don't seem to understand the problem. I think I do, and that aligns with your explanation how Cygwin machinery works to fake the FIFOs.
> If I can recognize a file as FIFO, I can use it as FIFO, regardless if it's a > native FIFO or a Cygwin FIFO. That's exactly what I meant! > Show me how to create a FIFO on NTFS or FAT by OS calls only, please. > Again, there is no API to create native FIFOs on a remote NFS filesystem. And because of the above, Cygwin can keep creating FIFOs as before, on any filesystem. Anton Lavrentiev Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
