mkfifo: cannot set permissions of 'x.fifo': Not a directory

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug  7 12:26, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
> On 2023-08-07 08:42, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> > 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
> 
> This error is also reproducible with default fifo permissions 666 or
> anything else, and appears to be returned by gen_full_path_at() in
> syscalls.cc when called with a fifo:

This will be fixed in 3.4.8, see
https://cygwin.com/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=commit;h=b56b4d7fd85b


Corinna