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On 2025-01-31 06:23, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM Cedric Blancher <cedric DOT blancher AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> [snip]
>> Does the ms-nfs41-client support NFS_SPECFILE_FIFO and NFS_SPECFILE_SOCK?
> 
> No, but if Cygwin implements this for the Microsoft NFSv3 client then
> I'll add support for ms-nfs41-client and ms-nfs42-client ASAP.
> 
> But I really would prefer if Cygwin would NOT use |NFS_SPECFILE_LNK|
> (all other |NFS_SPECFILE_*| would be OK), because it seems to be
> limited to |2050| bytes, while ms-nfs41-client/ms-nfs42-client doesn't
> have such a limit (currently supported are 4096 byte long paths, which
> sites like CERN&&Pasteur really use (measured by the bug reports about
> "... paths with 3280 bytes etc don't work...") ...).
> 
> Question for Corinna:
> Why did Cygwin never use
> |NFS_SPECFILE_FIFO|/|NFS_SPECFILE_SOCK|/|NFS_SPECFILE_CHR| from
> https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/windows_protocols/ms-fscc/ff4df658-7f27-476a-8025-4074c0121eec
> ?

One good reason to avoid MS protocols is that they *MAY* be patent encumbered 
and *MAY* require to be licensed - they don't really say - feel free to ask MS 
for permission to pay if you have funding?!

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