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On Fri, Aug 18, 2023 at 10:34 AM Corinna Vinschen
<corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 18 06:02, Martin Wege via Cygwin wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 7, 2023 at 4:42 PM Martin Wege <martin DOT l DOT wege AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > 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
> > >
> > > Is there a known workaround? So far named fifos cannot be created somehow.
> >
> > This is fixed for NTFS, but still broken for Windows builtin NFS v3 client:
>
> It was actually never supposed to work on NFS.  Cygwin FIFOs are
> created as symlinks of the type Windows shortcut with the R/O attribute
> set.  Those are only generated on NTFS and FAT filesystems.  NFS symlinks
> are generated using special magic.  NFS doesn't support DOS attributes.

So what would be a way to fix this for users with NFS mounted
projects, data or home dirs?

Thanks,
Martin

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