On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 11:26:37AM +1100, matthew green wrote: > > I thought sockets weren't affected by read-only filesystem. Just out > of curiousity, why should they be if the node is already there? There'd > be no actual writing to the filesystem. Do fifo's not work either? > > creating a socked or a named pipe is creating a file on the > file system. you need to be able to write to it. this is > simply enforcing the same semantics as elsewhere...
I understood that. I just didn't realize you had to delete and re-create them each time. I guess you can't reuse the inode. I thought you could.
