On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/16/05, Arvind Kalyan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 7/16/05, Dhruv Matani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I can't seem to be able to use fifos on an NFS mount. Is there any > > > reason why this is disallowed, or is this is a bug? v.2.4.20. > > > > Are both the processes (reader/writer) on the same machine? FIFOs are > > local objects. > > Yes, but I'm accessing them through my remote[public] IP address. > The idea behind it is to have a fifo that works across the network > through an NFS mount. Is that possible? > > I serched google for 'socket file', and all that I got was 'fifo', but > they are to be used only on a singl machine for communication between > 2 or more applications, but couldn't find any file abstraction for > communication for processes on distinct machines. Do you know of any > such thing, cause I couldn't find any. >
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