Re: FIFO problem on ROOT NFS

Andre Couture (search_n_find@yahoo.com)
Wed, 9 Sep 1998 13:26:28 -0700 (PDT)


Thanks,

Now, a stupid question,
How can I check if the tmp directory is nfs or regular?

I've looked at statfs but not sure that is portable to other os???

Would it be safe to use statfs?

/Andre

---Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > Now if that file is lying on the NFS, I get an nfs error and the
> > process die!
>
> Welcome to stateless file systems
>
> > But if I move it to a physical disk I don't get this error.
>
> Nod
>
> > Is that normal?
> > If not I can send you the exact error message and probably some
portion
> > of the related code.
>
> Dont delete it until you are finished for one. NFS isnt a posix or
unix
> file system, just a vague impression that works until you look under
the
> carpet
>
>

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