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

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Wednesday 30 April 2003 23:07, Simon A. Boggis wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 22:35, Adrian McMenamin wrote:
> > This is what I want to replicate:
> >
> > http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&threadm=0Jda9.11393%24
> >zX3.18982%40news.indigo.ie&rnum=4&prev=/groups%3Fq%3Dmounting%2Bswap%2Bove
> >r%2Bnfs%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26selm%3D0Jda9.11393%2524zX3.18982%
> >2540news.indigo.ie%26rnum%3D4
>
> Oh I see - there seems to be a recipe there for freebsd (which doesn't
> involve any named pipes at all):
>

Why is it not a named pipe? I may well have got the nomeclture wrong (this is 
a genuine question), but this:

http://wombat.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?named+pipe

suggests that I haven't afaics.



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