geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) (03/25/88)
In article <420@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes: > Sys V fsck(1M) complains about some FIFOs -- is their any good > reason for this? The bummer is that it causes a laxness about > POSSIBLE FILE SIZE ERRORS ("Oh, that's just a FIFO, don't worry > about it") and real problems are missed. At Callan Data Systems, Tim Smith fixed fsck to recognize FIFO's as such, and to skip the file size error message. Being a thorough fellow, he also changed the final message (n files, m i-nodes, etc.) to include "k pipes". As I recall, he didn't find any of this very hard. -- Geoff Kuenning geoff@ITcorp.com {uunet,trwrb}!desint!geoff