Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Feb 2000 12:52:18 -0500 (EST) | From | Ion Badulescu <> | Subject | Re: NFS compatibility problem with pipes |
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On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, David Malone wrote:
> 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...)
It would work if 1. you used 2.0.36+ (*not* 2.2) or 2. you had a unfsd server (not sure about knfsd though, so this could become "if you have a linux server").
It's as simple as this: NFSv2 doesn't know about named pipes and people have hacked their way around this limitation. It just happens that linux chose a different hack than everybody else.
I had at some point a patch for 2.1.something which made linux use char<255,255> as the NFSv2 encoding for a named pipe. I'll see if I can get it to work with 2.2, but it'll have to wait until tonight when I get back home. :)
Ion
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