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SubjectRe: [PATCH] NFS client handling of FIFOs.
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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 about not checking with tcpdump is out of date).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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