From: "Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]" <lavr@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov>
To: "cygwin@cygwin.com" <cygwin@cygwin.com>
Cc: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>
Subject: RE: How to fix |mkfifo()| failure if |pathname| is on NFS ? / was: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: mkfifo: cannot set permissions of 'x.fifo': Not a directory
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2023 14:39:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <DM8PR09MB7095608F9D223687B76CA98BA5E2A@DM8PR09MB7095.namprd09.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZOoMJSg3Zl9Q5HTX@calimero.vinschen.de>
> You don't seem to understand the problem.
I think I do, and that aligns with your explanation how Cygwin machinery works to fake the FIFOs.
> If I can recognize a file as FIFO, I can use it as FIFO, regardless if it's a native FIFO or a Cygwin FIFO.
That's exactly what I meant!
> Show me how to create a FIFO on NTFS or FAT by OS calls only, please.
> Again, there is no API to create native FIFOs on a remote NFS filesystem.
And because of the above, Cygwin can keep creating FIFOs as before, on any filesystem.
Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-08-26 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-08-07 14:42 Martin Wege
2023-08-07 18:26 ` Brian Inglis
2023-08-07 19:14 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-07 21:14 ` Martin Wege
2023-08-08 8:20 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-08 19:38 ` Martin Wege
2023-08-09 8:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-09 9:12 ` Martin Wege
2023-08-09 9:56 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-10 12:49 ` Martin Wege
2023-08-18 4:02 ` Martin Wege
2023-08-18 8:34 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-18 13:14 ` Martin Wege
2023-08-21 4:49 ` Cedric Blancher
2023-08-21 8:37 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-22 14:52 ` [EXTERNAL] " Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2023-08-22 23:05 ` How to fix |mkfifo()| failure if |pathname| is on NFS ? / was: " Roland Mainz
2023-08-24 16:45 ` Martin Wege
2023-08-25 4:25 ` Cedric Blancher
2023-08-26 17:58 ` Martin Wege
2023-08-25 12:18 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-25 12:25 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-26 11:26 ` Cedric Blancher
2023-08-26 14:15 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-26 17:40 ` Martin Wege
2023-08-26 19:16 ` Brian Inglis
2023-08-25 15:14 ` Roland Mainz
2023-08-26 11:27 ` Cedric Blancher
2023-08-25 23:21 ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2023-08-26 14:28 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-26 14:39 ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] [this message]
2023-08-26 17:44 ` Documenting Cygwin on NFS, no longer only exchange-medium! " Martin Wege
2023-08-26 19:16 ` Brian Inglis
2023-08-27 12:35 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-28 5:35 ` Cedric Blancher
2023-08-28 10:02 ` Corinna Vinschen
2023-08-28 11:41 ` Joshuah Hurst
[not found] ` <14a692f6-7244-4a7e-a69b-d14521fb01e8@secure-endpoints.com>
2023-08-23 17:39 ` Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]
2023-08-24 5:28 ` Cedric Blancher
2023-08-24 16:40 ` Martin Wege
2023-08-21 12:12 ` Martin Wege
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