sys v fifo + stat

[wombat at ccvaxa.UUCP]

I have a question about System V fifos and stat. The current SVID (at
least the copy here) is missing the page for stat(BA_OS), so 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. My ancient SV manual
doesn't say anything about it nor does an older version of the SVID.
Does anyone know for sure?


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