On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 4:42 PM Martin Wege <martin.l.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > We get a weird mkfifo failure in Cygwin on NTFS: > > /usr/bin/mkfifo -m 600 x.fifo > mkfifo: cannot set permissions of 'x.fifo': Not a directory > > Is there a known workaround? So far named fifos cannot be created somehow.
This is fixed for NTFS, but still broken for Windows builtin NFS v3 client: $ mkfifo -m 0600 hellofifo.fifo mkfifo: cannot set permissions of 'hellofifo.fifo': No such file or directory $ ls -l hellofifo.fifo lrwxrwxrwx 1 Unix_User+3640 Unix_Group+3640 11 Aug 18 05:58 hellofifo.fifo -> ':\0:c4:1180' $ uname -a CYGWIN_NT-10.0-19045 wincluster01_40_88 3.4.8-1.x86_64 2023-08-17 17:02 UTC x86_64 Cygwin Thanks, Martin -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
