From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261666AbVGPPvB (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:51:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261669AbVGPPvA (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:51:00 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.202]:41739 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261666AbVGPPu6 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:50:58 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=e6EXR3KxsGuHkcva6QMzkWufmH/hafbqgLiH93EvFZemM3I+Z3g8p2NT9ttvTiEe5SGIB0vUlOdCXQUUBTdos4iHn8AFYNk20lZ0A6TnyyvHjAuHYE/NoDbY6MU+WhMYI3NIHS8v7K/XiOrM/+FKWPkuUq+ghxsETOHOyOyD+SE= Message-ID: <3a9148b905071608496f5c9339@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 21:19:52 +0530 From: Dhruv Matani Reply-To: Dhruv Matani To: Arvind Kalyan Subject: Re: NFS and fifos. Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <90c25f2705071607321d66a776@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <3a9148b9050716034417d7d148@mail.gmail.com> <90c25f2705071607321d66a776@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/16/05, Arvind Kalyan wrote: > On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani 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 > -- -Dhruv Matani. http://www.geocities.com/dhruvbird/ The race of quality has no finish line. ~Anon.