[GRASSLIST:5273] Re: mknod/mkfifo in cygwin

[Eric G. Miller]

On Sun, Jan 05, 2003 at 08:31:16AM +0100, Jaro Hofierka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have installed grass5.0.0 using cygwin on MS W2000 Professional. I 
> compiled the source code and everything went OK except for fifos in dev 
> directory. Apparently, cygwin does not support fifos because
> when I enter mknod ot mkfifo command manually I get "Function not 
> implemented" error message.
> So I am not able to start graphic monitor using d.mon command. NVIZ 
> works OK, but rather slowly.
> I would appreciate any hint on how to fix this problem.

Sockets should be default for communications on all platforms.  Unless
you changed configuration options all the drawing commands should
communicate with the renderers via sockets.  I'm not up on cygwin
builds, but that should be working.  (replacing FIFO's was done
specifically because windows doesn't support them.)

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