From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261929AbVGPUrJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:47:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261963AbVGPUrJ (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:47:09 -0400 Received: from zproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.162.199]:48955 "EHLO zproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261929AbVGPUrH convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 16 Jul 2005 16:47:07 -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=fXs4mHFH+yuEuD0gGOpJ2sCzuWHUij6GJ1Kbhr7z7IOxI2hsZNQ2gApxYyxHfDWzpsKOKLSMvgKfTSS/u++mFjZS5I1/jGAO89b9S4kOTaP8wfdsMB0Igs9/VLu8opfhH8YV/AmaWgHzdBSF6r4hxfwjof5IEz5CuE+XX7aMXDc= Message-ID: <9a874849050716134767693099@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2005 22:47:07 +0200 From: Jesper Juhl Reply-To: Jesper Juhl To: Willy Tarreau Subject: Re: NFS and fifos. Cc: Dhruv Matani , Arvind Kalyan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050716175754.GQ8907@alpha.home.local> 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> <9a87484905071608565d4b2ec1@mail.gmail.com> <3a9148b905071610559f494a3@mail.gmail.com> <20050716175754.GQ8907@alpha.home.local> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/16/05, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:25:01PM +0530, Dhruv Matani wrote: > > On 7/16/05, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > 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. > > > > Are sockets named files? > > Unix sockets, yes. Look at /dev/log or /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 for example. > But they are local anyway, you cannot use them between two systems. > And for communicating between two systems TCP or UDP sockets work just fine. -- 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