On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 03:23:21AM -0700, Karsten Blees via GitGitGadget wrote:
> -     if (!get_file_info_by_handle(fh, buf))
> +     case FILE_TYPE_CHAR:
> +     case FILE_TYPE_PIPE:
> +             /* initialize stat fields */
> +             memset(buf, 0, sizeof(*buf));
> +             buf->st_nlink = 1;
> +
> +             if (type == FILE_TYPE_CHAR) {
> +                     buf->st_mode = _S_IFCHR;
> +             } else {
> +                     buf->st_mode = _S_IFIFO;
> +                     if (PeekNamedPipe(fh, NULL, 0, NULL, &avail, NULL))
> +                             buf->st_size = avail;

These lines strike me as a bit odd.  As far as I'm aware, Unix systems
don't return anything useful in this field when calling fstat on a pipe.
Is there a reason we fill this in on Windows?  If so, could the commit
message explain what that is?
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