mkfifo - disk backed?

Dan Nelson dnelson at allantgroup.com
Mon Sep 13 10:21:11 PDT 2004


In the last episode (Sep 13), Jesse Guardiani said:
> Just curious: Are FIFOs made by mkfifo disk backed? Do they go away
> between reboots? Do they lose data between reboots?

Fifos are just pipes with a visible physical name.   The fifo itself
stays in the filesystem after a reboot, but since all the data passing
is handled in the kernel, a reboot will blow away any data (including
the processes reading/writing that data :).  If your FIFO is on an NFS
mount, a reboot of the remote server will have no effect on the
client's use of the fifo (since all fifo traffic is handled locally on
the client).

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com


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