Re: NFS compatibility problem with pipes

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 7 Feb 2000 14:55:04 +0000 (GMT)

> I have a FreeBSD server which exports a filesystem which contains a
> named pipe.
> When i try to access the pipe from my linux box, it sees a character
> device instead.

A pipe is undefined in NFSv2 (it btw doesnt do anything useful in NFSv3
either - its there but doesnt run across the network).

Alan

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