FIFOs and fsck

[Geoff Kuenning]

In article <420 at vsi.UUCP> friedl at 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.
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	Geoff Kuenning   geoff at ITcorp.com   {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff