On Sat, Aug 26, 2023 at 4:16 PM Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > On Aug 26 13:26, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > > On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 14:26, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin > > <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > > > > On Aug 25 14:18, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > > > On Aug 23 01:05, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote: > > > > > 2. Check whether the filesystem for the fifos path is NFS > > > > > (cgywin.dll's |fs.fs_is_nfs()|), and then just refuse |mkfifo()| with > > > > > |ENOSYS| (not implemented) > > > > > > > > I like the idea. > > > > > > EPERM, btw. See https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mknod.2.html > > > > > > > I am vehemently opposed to that idea. That will IMHO not only be the > > wrong solution, it will break actual things like autoconf&friends on > > NFS - they create fifos for testing, but do not use them. If you just > > make this return EPERM, then you break stuff we have to rely on. > > https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#STC, please.#
Real world failure for Cygwin on NFS: wget 'http://deb.debian.org/debian/pool/main/k/ksh93u+m/ksh93u+m_1.0.4.orig.tar.gz cd ksh-1.0.4 $PWD/bin/package make This fails with Cygwin 3.4.8-1: cat buildlog.log package: update /cygdrive/z/arbeitdfn/windows_ksh/build_nfsv3/ksh-1.0.4/bin/execrate package: initialize the /cygdrive/z/arbeitdfn/windows_ksh/build_nfsv3/ksh-1.0.4/arch/cygwin.i386-64 view package: update /cygdrive/z/arbeitdfn/windows_ksh/build_nfsv3/ksh-1.0.4/arch/cygwin.i386-64/lib/probe/C/make/probe package: update /cygdrive/z/arbeitdfn/windows_ksh/build_nfsv3/ksh-1.0.4/arch/cygwin.i386-64/bin/mamake package: make with mamake package: make output captured in /cygdrive/z/arbeitdfn/windows_ksh/build_nfsv3/ksh-1.0.4/arch/cygwin.i386-64/lib/package/gen/make.out mkfifo: cannot set permissions of '/cygdrive/z/arbeitdfn/windows_ksh/build_nfsv3/ksh-1.0.4/arch/cygwin.i386-64/lib/package/gen/make.out.fifo': No such file or directory package: make done at Fri Aug 26 19:24:26 CEST 2023 in /cygdrive/z/arbeitdfn/windows_ksh/build_nfsv3/ksh-1.0.4/arch/cygwin.i386-64 If you need more examples just let me now, we have MUCH more of that... 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
