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
