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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Are We Back to the "Wars" Now ?
Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 04:50:09 -0000 (UTC)
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On 23 Nov 2024 03:25:08 GMT, vallor wrote:

> I tested it too (with an NFS v4.1 filesystem), and yes, mkfifo makes a
> named pipe, and it works as expected.  (Didn't expect it to work across
> machines, though that would be a neat trick.)

No reason why it shouldn’t work, provided the network protocol has support 
for recognizing such special files.

> (Haven't figured out how to increase ulimit -p yet, doesn't seem to want
> to increase, even as root...)

<https://manpages.debian.org/7/pipe.7.en.html> mentions the 
/proc/sys/fs/pipe-max-size configuration limit. It could be that ulimit -p 
has no effect on Linux.