[Gllug] Convertng a disk (regular) file to a named pipe

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Wed Apr 30 21:20:24 UTC 2003


On Wednesday 30 April 2003 22:07, Tethys wrote:
> Adrian McMenamin writes:
> >Any ideas how to do this?
>
> Huh? Convert a file to a named pipe? What do you mean? You could
> delete the file, and replace it with a pipe of the same name. But
> converting it?
>
> Tet

Because I want to mount it as swap over nfs. This is how it's done under *BSD.


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