Making a named pipe over NFS

[Richard O'Keefe]

In article <2229 at cbnewsl.ATT.COM>, mdash at cbnewsl.ATT.COM (michael.d.scheer) writes:
> NFS does not support named pipes, because they (like devices) require
> state on the server, and NFS servers are stateless.  FYI, RFS (that
> other distributed file system) does support named pipes.

A Sun-3 client running SunOS 4.0_Export _can_ create a named pipe
in an NFS file system mounted from a Sun-3 server.

NFS servers don't maintain _connection_ state, but surely the state
which is relevant to a named pipe is the _contents_.