On 02/21/14 10:09, Peter Waller wrote: > Not realising the difference between a unix socket and a fifo I tried setting > `spiped`'s `-t` parameter to a named pipe. > > Unfortunately spipe just exits and spiped appears to do nothing in this case. > strace reveals that it tries to connect() to the fifo which isn't allowed: > >> connect(8, {sa_family=AF_FILE, path="/home/pwaller/tmp/spiped/testfifo"}, >> 110) > = -1 ECONNREFUSED (Connection refused) > > Any chance spiped could support writing to a fifo or is this fraught for some > reason?
A fifo is one-way, and the spiped protocol requires two-way communication during the initial handshake. Why do you want to use a fifo anyway? -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid