Problems with native Unix domain sockets on Win 10/2019

[Ken Brown]

On 9/25/2020 8:31 PM, Duncan Roe wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2020 at 04:30:45PM -0400, cygwin wrote:
>> On 9/25/2020 2:50 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>>> On 9/25/2020 10:29 AM, Michael McMahon wrote:
>>>>
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>>>> On 25/09/2020 14:19, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>> On 9/24/2020 8:01 AM, Michael McMahon wrote:
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>>>>>> On 24/09/2020 12:26, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>>>>> On 9/23/2020 7:25 AM, Michael McMahon via Cygwin wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I searched for related issues but haven't found anything.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I am having some trouble with Windows native Unix domain sockets
>>>>>>>> (a recent feature in Windows 10 and 2019 server) and Cygwin.
>>>>>>>> I think I possibly know the cause since I had to investigate a
>>>>>>>> similar looking issue on another platform built on Windows.
> [SNIP}
> Perhaps the question here is:
> 
>   "Is it a bug that Cygwin rm can't remove a file system entry that
>    no Cygwin program can create?"

No, it's not a bug.  But we can certainly try to add a feature to Cygwin that 
allows it to recognize and work with such files, especially since it appears at 
first glance to be quite easy to do so.

Ken