Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Feb 2000 15:24:35 +0000 | From | David Malone <> | Subject | Re: NFS compatibility problem with pipes |
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On Mon, Feb 07, 2000 at 02:55:04PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: > > I have a FreeBSD server which exports a filesystem which contains a > > named pipe. > > When i try to access the pipe from my linux box, it sees a character > > device instead. > > A pipe is undefined in NFSv2 (it btw doesnt do anything useful in NFSv3 > either - its there but doesnt run across the network).
Couldn't it behave as a named pipe would in the local filesystem? I'm sure I've seen this work elsewhere? (Not that that means it's the correct thing to do, but...)
David.
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