Re: NFS and fifos.

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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.

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