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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 16:55:05 +0400
From: Egor Duda <deo AT logos-m DOT ru>
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To: "Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: whats a good magic number for fifo's?
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Hi!

Tuesday, 27 March, 2001 Robert Collins robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au wrote:

RC> The title says it all.

RC> I'm extending the magic number checks in fhandler_base... this will have
RC> a performance impact (the assume exe flag and/or ntsec will no longer
RC> shortcut the file open and read tests). I'm open to suggestions for
RC> marking the file as a fifo without magic numbers.

how about using symlinks pointing to some special destination (for
example to '/cygdrive/fifo')? all we need to do in this case is to
slightly modify current symlink resolution code.

Egor.            mailto:deo AT logos-m DOT ru ICQ 5165414 FidoNet 2:5020/496.19