Re: named pipes over NFS

Atul Kumar (ak@iitk.ac.in)
Mon, 9 Nov 98 13:06:41 IST

> They do support USING FIFOs b/w two programs on the same host where
> the FIFO is on an NFS filesystem, and I HOPE this is what's
> implemented (should probably test this on my linux boxen.) but the
> FIFO doesn't transmit info from host a to host b.

In Linux too it does not work between processes on different hosts. I
wanted to know if there is some work in this direction as this may
help in process migration.

Next question I have is that are devices going to be supported on NFS
(can one host export its unmounted devices for access to other hosts)?

--
Atul.


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