From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261652AbVGPP4H (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:56:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261669AbVGPP4H (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:56:07 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.194]:52495 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261652AbVGPP4G convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jul 2005 11:56:06 -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=CbeCVpo2E2OjpbEcjKTW1YUQCRjKz852eB2YKiksdouK/8a86mxZ/EWYzbZV6ZzX6EAnj3wCLvzSVjOTeEFgdydLniOVBXXYrov3BfebwQNdaTEuLXaPa0nYT/SIy76eQdoOnUNI4gi3FZsxzlq8yibavNHo0LqBKpZwQa3fAK8= Message-ID: <9a87484905071608565d4b2ec1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 17:56:05 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl Reply-To: Jesper Juhl To: Dhruv Matani Subject: Re: NFS and fifos. Cc: Arvind Kalyan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <3a9148b905071608496f5c9339@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> <3a9148b905071608496f5c9339@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani wrote: > 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. > sockets. -- Jesper Juhl Don't top-post http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html Plain text mails only, please http://www.expita.com/nomime.html