If the O_PATH flag is set, fhandler_fifo::open now simply calls
fhandler_base::open_fs.
The previous attempt to handle O_PATH in commit aa55d22c
, "Cygwin:
honor the O_PATH flag when opening a FIFO", fixed a hang but otherwise
didn't do anything useful.
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