Messages in this thread | | | From | (Alan Cox) | Subject | Re: [PATCH] NFS client handling of FIFOs. | Date | Tue, 12 Jan 1999 14:56:53 +0000 (GMT) |
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> Currently Linux uses an unused bit in the mode field to indicate a file > is a FIFO over NFS requests. Unfortunately no other unix uses this bit > to indicate a FIFO, instead they use a character device with the field > rdev set to 0xffffffff (checked on Solaris, HPUX, and IRIX; the comment > about not checking with tcpdump is out of date).
See 2.2.0pre6 ac patches - they've got a fix for this in
Alan
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