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By: tml1024
I know. That's what I was saying. Windows and Unix named pipes have little in
common except the name.
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By: webica
Well... you should read wiki then
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Named_pipe
Named pipes ARE used by and in windows, but they work differently.
Nevertheless they can be used with some adjustme
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By: tml1024
Well, such "pipe files" don't exist on Windows, to the best of my knowledge.
What you are describing is very Unix specific.
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By: nobody
An example of mkfifo use on win32-
I have a device that can capture video to a file. The application can ONLY write
to a file. I want to transcode the video file using ffmpeg. As it is now, I
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By: tml1024
Yes, I know Windows has named pipes. But their usage and behaviour have little
in common with POSIX named pipes. (See the Wikipedia article you linked to,
did you read it?)
Yes, they are us
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By: compn
well then what does mkfifo do on win32? why is it in coreutils? why was
it ported?
win2k and xp have named pipes... look at CreateNamedPipe in the api...
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de
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By: tml1024
What exactly do you think mkfifo should do on Win32? (Remember we are not in
some POSIX emulation environment like Cygwin here.) Win32 named pipes have
little
in common with POSIX named pip
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By: compn
likewise, has anyone figured out how to use mkfifo on win32??
C:\Program Files\GnuWin32\bin>mkfifo blah
mkfifo: cannot create fifo `blah'