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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sys v fifo + stat
Message-ID: <7394@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 1 Mar 88 22:10:11 GMT
References: <29500022@ccvaxa>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <29500022@ccvaxa> wombat@ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
>I'm not sure whether calling stat on a fifo that exists on the filesystem but
>has no readers and no writers should hang or not.

Why should stat(2) "hang"?  It just returns info about the inode,
not the contents of the data.