[Mingw-users] Is there workable mkfifo for windows?

[Tor L. <tm...@ik...>]

> My question is: Is there workable mkfifo for windows?

No. There is no such concept in Windows. (There *is* something called
"named pipes" in Windows, but they are much different from fifos
a.k.a. named pipes in Unix. They aren't present in the file system,
for instance, and the API for using them is quite different. They can
be used for inter-machine IPC, even, and indeed typically are used for
that.)

Mingw does not provide Unix emulation. You will have to port the
software that uses fifos to use some other IPC mechanism instead.

--tml