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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