[GRASSLIST:5275] Re: mknod/mkfifo in cygwin

[Jaro Hofierka]

Eric,

you're right, the problem was in incomplete cygwin installation. Now it 
works fine. Thanks.

Jaro

Eric G. Miller wrote:
> 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.)
>