On Aug 26 13:26, Cedric Blancher via Cygwin wrote: > On Fri, 25 Aug 2023 at 14:26, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin > <cygwin@cygwin.com> wrote: > > > > On Aug 25 14:18, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin wrote: > > > On Aug 23 01:05, Roland Mainz via Cygwin wrote: > > > > 2. Check whether the filesystem for the fifos path is NFS > > > > (cgywin.dll's |fs.fs_is_nfs()|), and then just refuse |mkfifo()| with > > > > |ENOSYS| (not implemented) > > > > > > I like the idea. > > > > EPERM, btw. See https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/mknod.2.html > > > > I am vehemently opposed to that idea. That will IMHO not only be the > wrong solution, it will break actual things like autoconf&friends on > NFS - they create fifos for testing, but do not use them. If you just > make this return EPERM, then you break stuff we have to rely on.
https://cygwin.com/acronyms/#STC, please. Corinna -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
