Problems with named pipes and AuFS

2014-11-06 Thread Max Ott
I'm trying to set up two different filesystem contexts. $ mkdir a b common $ mkfifo common/fifo $ sudo mount -t aufs -o br=common none a $ sudo mount -t aufs -o br=common none b If I write and read to the same fifo path (e.g a/fifo) everything works fine, but if I do shell1

Re: Problems with named pipes and AuFS

2014-11-06 Thread sfjro
Hello Max, Max Ott: > If I write and read to the same fifo path (e.g a/fifo) everything > works fine, but if I do > > shell1$ cat a/fifo > ... > shell2$ echo 'hi' > b/fifo > > nothing happens. Because your 'a' and 'b' are different mount from each other, and 'a/fifo' and 'b/fifo' are different e

Re: Problems with named pipes and AuFS

2014-11-06 Thread Max Ott
Wonderful! Thanks a lot. That makes sense and I just got it to work. Cleaning up is a bit more involved now, but that's working now as well. Before I found out about this mailing list I posted a question on Stackoverflow ([1]http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26791920/named-