From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 04/07/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: [Q] Problem with named pipes and fstat
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 1993 21:58:10 GMT

In article <1993Apr6.092814.2191@swan.pyr> iiitac@swan.pyr (Alan Cox) writes:
>I guess it could be viewed as a bug. I tried using fstat() for named pipe
>work a long time ago and discovered it really depends on what Unix variant
>you use whether it works or not. When I tried it, it worked on Sys5.2 and
>Sys5.3 but not on Ultrix (suprise).

Not on any true System III/System V I've ever used. The only *ix I've ever
used that did that was Xenix... maybe SCO "Unix" does, but they also have the
*correct* way to do it (select() works on pipes and FIFOs) so I never bothered
to test it.

++Brandon 

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