FIFO problem on ROOT NFS

Andre Couture (Andre.Couture@fulcrum.com)
Wed, 09 Sep 1998 12:13:55 +0000


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I am porting an FullText database engine to Linux (Sparc) and have
problems.

On my sparc machine the entire file system is mounted NFS from a Linux
Intel box. (root=nfs)

The first process create a fifo file on /tmp, then the child process
open the same file for reading.
Then it is mmap, and when both have the file open it is then unlink'ed.

Now if that file is lying on the NFS, I get an nfs error and the
process die!
But if I move it to a physical disk I don't get this error.

Is that normal?
If not I can send you the exact error message and probably some portion
of the related code.

Andre

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I am porting an FullText database engine to Linux (Sparc) and have problems.

On my sparc machine the entire file system is mounted NFS from a Linux Intel  box. (root=nfs)

The first process create a fifo file on /tmp, then the child process open the same file for reading.
Then it is mmap, and when both have the file open it is then unlink'ed.

Now if that file is lying on the NFS,  I get an nfs error and the process die!
But if I move it to a physical disk I don't get this error.

Is that normal?
If not I can send you the exact error message and probably some portion of the related code.

Andre
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Andre Couture
938934 Ontario Inc.
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