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From: mdash@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (michael.d.scheer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Making a named pipe over NFS
Keywords: /etc/mknod, fifo, NFS, SunOS
Message-ID: <2229@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>
Date: 12 Oct 89 11:59:51 GMT
References: <2388@munnari.oz.au>
Reply-To: mdash@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (michael.d.scheer,sf,)
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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NFS does not support named pipes, because they (like devices) require
state on the server, and NFS servers are stateless.  FYI, RFS (that
other distributed file system) does support named pipes.