On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, ville hautakangas wrote:

> >     I haven't seen anything about fifofs in the GENERIC kernel configs on
> > both vax and pmax. Try nm /netbsd | grep fifo and I get about 35 symbols on
> > a custom kernel on my pmax.
> 
> Well, I would think that fifos are something that should be 
> supported on any unixhy system that's been updated since 
> the beginning of the 80's. Can you use mkfifo in a shell?
> As in
> 
> $ mkfifo kikkeli
> $ echo this text goes through the fifo > kikkeli &
> $ cat kikkeli

I remember there being a problem with fifo's on NFS filesystems under
NetBSD/vax.  In particular, screen didn't work on the diskless NetBSD/vax
stations.  You did say that your system was diskless, right?  I'm not sure
whether or not fifo creation should work on NFS filesystems or not.

I've verified that the above test case does work on my NetBSD/vax 1.4.1
disk based system.  I don't have access to my diskless systems at the
moment.

-brian.
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