On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
> What made me wonder, is the fact that i created the pipe from the Linux
> box and the so created pipe is correctly recognized by the FreeBSD
> server. But The Linux box sees a char<255,255> node.
So the freebsd server has a workaround in place to recognize
the linux-specific FIFO encoding. It doesn't help you though, as you
noticed..
> > 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. :)
> >
> That would be nice, thanks
Actually it might be a better idea to just grab the latest patch from the
nfs client maintainer, which has this patch added and has other fixes as
well. The URL is http://www.fys.uio.no/~trondmy/src/
Ion
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