FIFOs break tar, others

[Steve Benz]

>From article <9824 at steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>, by davidsen at steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr):
> In article <1512 at sugar.UUCP> karl at sugar.UUCP (Karl Lehenbauer) writes:
> | Tar will hang when it tries to open FIFOs.  Cpio and even 'cp' will
> | too...
>   Outside of reporting the bug in Ultrix, I think it would be useful for
> people to report their experiences, so that we get a feel for which
> systems exhibit the problem you mention.

  We had a situation where cpio was somehow causing a bug in the pipe
drivers to show up.  This was with the NCR Tower & Tower XP.  I wasn't
the one who tracked the problem to being a kernel bug, rather the one
who wrote the application which ran at the other end of the pipe.

  I can't say too much about it, because it was a long time ago, and
I was only in my third month of Unix programming at the time.

  Suffice to say that this problem may be something created by AT&T
a long time ago (> 3 years.)

					- Steve
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