unlink does not remove named pipe

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Apr 17 11:46:27 GMT 2020


Hi Kristian,

On 4/17/2020 4:26 AM, Kristian Ivarsson via Cygwin wrote:
> If you're creating a lot's of named pipes in main process and in children
> and then using unlink, some of the named pipe files are not removed from the
> file system and no error is issued, i.e. unlink doesn't return -1

Thanks for the report.  As usual, a test case would be helpful.

Ken


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