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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix,comp.sys.intel
Subject: Re: FIFOs break tar, others
Message-ID: <9918@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 14 Mar 88 16:34:54 GMT
References: <1512@sugar.UUCP> <9824@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP> <1566@sugar.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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  Several people have told me that pipes can cause trouble with cpio if
they are open. I have not been able to cause that behavior, but I don't
doubt it for a moment. I repeated my tests as follows, without failure.
	/etc/mknode fifo p	# create the pipe
	sleep 180 > fifo	# get it going
	ls | cpio -ov > /tmp/x$$ # try a dump

  Thanks to several who clarified this.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me