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From: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
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Subject: Re: fifo configure check
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Zefram wrote:
> It works for me on NFS-mounted filesystems.  (Solaris 2.5.1 and SunOS
> 4.1.4.)  If FIFOs don't work on such filesystems, then that is a
> serious bug in the operating system.

But no.  On plain Solaris 2.5.1:

turan ~ % uname -a
SunOS turan.cs.elte.hu 5.5.1 Generic_103640-01 sun4m sparc SUNW,SPARCstation-10
turan ~ % ls -l foo
ls: foo: No such file or directory
turan ~ % mkfifo foo
mkfifo: cannot make fifo `foo': Invalid argument

My home directory is NFS mounted from Linux.  Fifos work in directories
mounted from Ultrix.

Zoltan