From: Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 21:18:08 GMT
Subject: Re: cygwin: t3200-branch.sh fails with "List form of pipe open not implemented at -e line 22."
Message-ID: <20051015211808.GA3497@steel.home>
In-Reply-To: <434FF189.3080806@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin, Fri, Oct 14, 2005 19:57:29 +0200:
> >Now, how broken is that:
> >
> >The message comes from one of the hooks, which are executed even
> >though they never meant to, because cygwin apparently uses file
> >content or name to detect executability (on FAT).
> >
> >I just remove the hooks from repositories atm.
> 
> I think the bottom line is "don't use FAT".
> 

I'm afraid I have to. NTFS isn't much better (newly created files
still have no correct attribute) and is slower (sometimes much
slower). Not that I have a choice, anyway: it's a typical corporate
workstation locked as down as possible.