Re: NFS and fifos.

From: Dhruv Matani
Date: Sat Jul 16 2005 - 10:52:19 EST


On 7/16/05, Arvind Kalyan <base16@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <dhruvbird@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I can't seem to be able to use fifos on an NFS mount. Is there any
> > reason why this is disallowed, or is this is a bug? v.2.4.20.
>
> Are both the processes (reader/writer) on the same machine? FIFOs are
> local objects.

Yes, but I'm accessing them through my remote[public] IP address.
The idea behind it is to have a fifo that works across the network
through an NFS mount. Is that possible?

I serched google for 'socket file', and all that I got was 'fifo', but
they are to be used only on a singl machine for communication between
2 or more applications, but couldn't find any file abstraction for
communication for processes on distinct machines. Do you know of any
such thing, cause I couldn't find any.


>
> --
> Arvind Kalyan
> http://www.devforge.net/~arv
>


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