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Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 23:25:01 +0530
From: Dhruv Matani <dhruvbird@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: NFS and fifos.
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On 7/16/05, Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <dhruvbird@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 7/16/05, Arvind Kalyan <base16@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <dhruvbird@gmail.com> 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.
> >
> 
> sockets.

Are sockets named files?

> 
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