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Subject: Is it possible to use FIFOs (named pipes) in 386BSD 0.1?
Reply-To: scott@lopez.marquette.MI.US
From: scott@clmqt.marquette.MI.US (Scott Reynolds)
Message-ID: <DvSXe-Cn3@clmqt.marquette.MI.US>
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 01:59:43 EDT
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I added the FIFO option, hand twiddled the .depend file so that the
appropriate files, e.g. fifo_vnops.c would be compiled properly,
linked and installed the new kernel, and made a fifo with mkfifo(1).
I did a "cat fifoname &" and then said "echo hello >fifoname" -- and
wouldn't you know it, the machine hung. Dead in the water, so to speak.
So now I wonder -- can it be done? I have an application that would
prefer to use fifos as a portability consideration (it was written in a
XENIX environment).
If this can't be done, or my concept of fifos is totally wrong (which
could be true, admittedly) please let me know. I'd appreciate hearing
whether or not this is possible. Thanks!
--
Scott Reynolds
scott@{clmqt,lopez}.Marquette.MI.US
A094@NMUMUS.BITNET