mkfifo: cannot set permissions of 'x.fifo': Not a directory

Martin Wege martin.l.wege@gmail.com
Mon Aug 7 14:42:57 GMT 2023

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Hello,
We get a weird mkfifo failure in Cygwin on NTFS:
/usr/bin/mkfifo -m 600 x.fifo
mkfifo: cannot set permissions of 'x.fifo': Not a directory
Is there a known workaround? So far named fifos cannot be created somehow.
Thanks,
Martin

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