X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,TW_MK,TW_PR X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <4C1683BF.2010705@bopp.net> Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 14:32:15 -0500 From: Jeremy Bopp User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100317 Thunderbird/3.0.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Named pipes act like directories Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com 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 -Jeremy -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple