Re: Named pipes act like directories

On Jun 14 14:32, Jeremy Bopp wrote: > Named pipes under Cygwin 1.7.5 appear to act like directories that > contain nonsense entries. > > Under Cygwin: > > $ mkfifo /tmp/pipe && ls -l /tmp/pipe /tmp/pipe/no/such/path > prw-rw-rw- 1 jeremy Domain Users 0 2010-06-14 13:57 /tmp/pipe > prw-r- 1

Named pipes act like directories

Named pipes under Cygwin 1.7.5 appear to act like directories that contain nonsense entries. Under Cygwin: $ mkfifo /tmp/pipe && ls -l /tmp/pipe /tmp/pipe/no/such/path prw-rw-rw- 1 jeremy Domain Users 0 2010-06-14 13:57 /tmp/pipe prw-r- 1 0 2006-11-30 18:00 /tmp/pipe/n