Re: FIFOs in "Services for Unix" format in Windows

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Steve French <smfrench@xxxxxxxxx> 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.

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