From: Robert Lund (rml@bighorn.uswest.com)
Date: 11/20/91 

Subject: FIFOs
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1991 09:06:56 MST
From: Robert Lund <rml@bighorn.uswest.com>

Has anyone successfully used FIFOs. I have tried but I
get the error message:

        (Read)inode->i_mode=010666

        cat: fifo: EINVAL

when I try:

        mknod fifo
        chmod 666 fifo
        cat fifo&

I can successfully write to it, although its size is always 0.

Any ideas.

Bob Lund