Re: FVWM: fvwm on cygwin

From: Neil Zanella <nzanella_at_cs.mun.ca>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 02:49:13 -0230 (NDT)

On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Michael Han wrote:

> mkfifo() is unsupported under Cygwin, which hardly comes as a
> surprise, since most special files found in Unix have no corresponding
> equivalent in Win32: symlinks, hard links, fifos, block specials,
> character specials... Have a look at:
>
> http://www.cygwin.com/faq/faq_3.html#SEC18
>
> for the entry for mkfifo().

You are perfectly right in pointing out that the FAQ mentions the
following: mkfifo: P 5.4.2.1 -- unimplemented!!!

Perhaps this problem can be solved by testing for the value of
either uname -s for CYGWIN_NT-5.0 and other values or $TERM
for cygwin in the make install script or something similar.
That way we could have a working make install under cygwin too.

Fvwm is great! Thanks!

Neil

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