On 7/16/05, Willy Tarreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 11:25:01PM +0530, Dhruv Matani wrote: > > On 7/16/05, Jesper Juhl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 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. > > > > > > > > > > sockets. > > > > Are sockets named files? > > Unix sockets, yes. Look at /dev/log or /tmp/.X11-unix/X0 for example. > But they are local anyway, you cannot use them between two systems. > And for communicating between two systems TCP or UDP sockets work just fine.
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