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Article #750Re: FIFOs and fsck
From: Geoff Kuenning
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1988 06:52
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 1988 06:52
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In article <420@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
> Sys V fsck(1M) complains about some FIFOs -- is their any good
> reason for this? The bummer is that it causes a laxness about
> POSSIBLE FILE SIZE ERRORS ("Oh, that's just a FIFO, don't worry
> about it") and real problems are missed.
At Callan Data Systems, Tim Smith fixed fsck to recognize FIFO's as such,
and to skip the file size error message. Being a thorough fellow,
he also changed the final message (n files, m i-nodes, etc.) to include
"k pipes". As I recall, he didn't find any of this very hard.
--
Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!udel!burdvax!sdcrdcf!trwrb!desint!geoff From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Newsgroups: comp.bugs.sys5,comp.unix.microport,comp.unix.xenix Subject: Re: FIFOs and fsck Message-ID: <1699@desint.UUCP> Date: 25 Mar 88 06:52:36 GMT References: <3776@chinet.UUCP> <7478@brl-smoke.ARPA> <420@vsi.UUCP> Reply-To: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) Distribution: na Organization: Interrupt Technology Corp., Manhattan Beach, CA Lines: 13