sys v fifo + stat

[Doug Gwyn]

In article <29500022 at ccvaxa> wombat at ccvaxa.UUCP writes:
>I'm not sure whether calling stat on a fifo that exists on the filesystem but
>has no readers and no writers should hang or not.

Why should stat(2) "hang"?  It just returns info about the inode,
not the contents of the data.