Re: Named pipes act like directories

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

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 ???????? ????????     0 2006-11-30 18:00 /tmp/pipe/no/such/path
> 
> 
> Under Linux:
> 
> $ mkfifo /tmp/pipe && ls -l /tmp/pipe /tmp/pipe/no/such/path
> ls: cannot access /tmp/pipe/no/such/path: Not a directory
> prw-r--r-- 1 jeremy dev 0 2010-06-14 14:10 /tmp/pipe

Should be fixed in CVS.

Thanks,
Corinna

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