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From: ok@cs.mu.oz.au (Richard O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Making a named pipe over NFS
Keywords: /etc/mknod, fifo, NFS, SunOS
Message-ID: <2415@munnari.oz.au>
Date: 13 Oct 89 06:42:55 GMT
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In article <2229@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>, mdash@cbnewsl.ATT.COM (michael.d.scheer) writes:
> 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.

A Sun-3 client running SunOS 4.0_Export _can_ create a named pipe
in an NFS file system mounted from a Sun-3 server.

NFS servers don't maintain _connection_ state, but surely the state
which is relevant to a named pipe is the _contents_.