From: "Aurélien Aptel" <aaptel@suse.com>
To: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>,
CIFS <linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org>,
mkoeppe@gmx.de
Subject: Re: FIFOs in "Services for Unix" format in Windows
Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 11:55:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgvj5e2j.fsf@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAH2r5mvrw8X-t4ojH-3LsQfrwJpFfUB8QgVWPrT2hGtwMjCTTQ@mail.gmail.com>
Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com> writes:
> 1. FIFOs:
> If a file has 0 bytes and has the System attribute set,
> Interix considers it as a FIFO special file.
> <snip>
>
> Wonder why we implemented the other parts of this (in cifs.ko) but not FIFOs?
I feel like those files aren't that uncommon on windows, which would
lead to misinterpretting them as FIFOs.
Cheers,
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2019-03-19 5:07 FIFOs in "Services for Unix" format in Windows Steve French
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