Named pipes act like directories

[Jeremy Bopp]

Named pipes under Cygwin 1.7.5 appear to act like directories that
contain nonsense entries.

Under Cygwin:

$ mkfifo /tmp/pipe && ls -l /tmp/pipe /tmp/pipe/no/such/path
prw-rw-rw- 1 jeremy   Domain Users 0 2010-06-14 13:57 /tmp/pipe
prw-r----- 1 ???????? ????????     0 2006-11-30 18:00 /tmp/pipe/no/such/path


Under Linux:

$ mkfifo /tmp/pipe && ls -l /tmp/pipe /tmp/pipe/no/such/path
ls: cannot access /tmp/pipe/no/such/path: Not a directory
prw-r--r-- 1 jeremy dev 0 2010-06-14 14:10 /tmp/pipe


-Jeremy

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