How to fix |mkfifo()| failure if |pathname| is on NFS ? / was: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: mkfifo: cannot set permissions of 'x.fifo': Not a directory

[Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C]]

> it is not possible to diffentiate between Cygwin
> FIFOs and real FIFOs created from the remote side in `ls -l'
> output.

Why would that be necessary?  If it's a FIFO, it can be used as a FIFO, regardless where and how it was created..

Anton Lavrentiev
Contractor NIH/NLM/NCBI