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From: Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: Patch to avoid using mkfifo under cygwin
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On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Given that this is something that will just magically work when the cygwin
> DLL is updated, I don't think autoconf is the right way to go.

Doh! I overlooked that.
> 
> What's wrong with the current code which returns an error when mkfifo fails?
> That seems pretty clear to me.

Hmmm.. So mkfifo is defined in cygwin, but returns errors? If so, I'd say 
we should just leave it alone.

Mo, is this actually causing problems somewhere?
Keith