On 2022-02-21 06:36, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
These symbolic links are crucial e.g. to support process substitution (Bash's
very nice `<(SOME-COMMAND)` feature).
For various reasons, it is a bit cumbersome (or impossible) to generate these
symbolic links in all circumstances where Git for Windows wants to use its
close fork of the Cygwin runtime.
Therefore, let's just handle these symbolic links as implicit, virtual ones.
If there is appetite for it, I wonder whether we should do something similar
for `/dev/shm` and `/dev/mqueue`? Are these even still used in Cygwin?
Looks like that would make sense, as Cygwin appears to create all of
those only on first startup (and probably rechecks if they need created
every startup) e.g.
Cygwin-32 $ ls -Fglot /dev/ | tail -6
lrwxrwxrwx 1 13 Apr 29 2012 fd -> /proc/self/fd/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 15 Apr 29 2012 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 15 Apr 29 2012 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1|
lrwxrwxrwx 1 15 Apr 29 2012 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 0 Apr 29 2012 mqueue/
drwxr-xr-x+ 1 0 Apr 29 2012 shm/
Cygwin-64 $ ls -Fglot /dev/ | tail -6
drwxrwxrwt+ 1 0 Dec 2 2017 shm/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 13 May 14 2013 fd -> /proc/self/fd/
lrwxrwxrwx 1 15 May 14 2013 stderr -> /proc/self/fd/2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 15 May 14 2013 stdout -> /proc/self/fd/1|
lrwxrwxrwx 1 15 May 14 2013 stdin -> /proc/self/fd/0
drwxrwxrwt+ 1 0 May 14 2013 mqueue/
so they would all get 2006-12-01 00:00:00+0000 birth time.
[Looks like I ran something using shm in 2017!]
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