Date: Fri, 19 Jul 1996 12:22:27 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu Cc: bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, markd@Grizzly.COM Subject: Re: kern/1397: can't send to a pipe Message-ID: <199607190222.MAA29339@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>BUGS > Applying fstat() to a socket (and thus to a pipe) returns a zeroed > buffer, except for the blocksize field, and a unique device and inode > number. >So there's a bug in the BUGS section in that the st_mode field is also >being set. Anyway, nobody could rely on it... Also, the device and inode number don't seem to be set for sockets, so they remain as zero and are non-unique. They are certianly zero for nameless pipes. Bruce
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