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- From: tlg@uknet.ac.uk (Tim.Goodwin)
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Imaginary File System (Re: making the named pipe work on a cluster)
- Message-ID: <1306@uknet.ac.uk>
- Date: 12 Aug 92 17:17:27 GMT
- References: <82mm#9=.xtifr@netcom.com> <1992Jul30.215954.22281@sfu.ca> <166or2INN21m@smurf.smurf.sub.org>
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- Approved: the-fairy@the.bottom.of.the.garden
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- In article <166or2INN21m@smurf.smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org
- (Matthias Urlichs) writes:
- >In alt.hackers, article <1992Jul30.215954.22281@sfu.ca>,
- > howesb@fraser.sfu.ca (Charles Howes) writes:
- >>
- >> Actually, since a file exists if it is held open, you could create an
- >> 'imaginary file' server. How could anybody recover the data if they didn't
- >> go through the server?
- >
- >And how do you propose to get the files back after a reboot? ;-)
-
- Unlink them from lost+found, of course.
-
- ObHack: persuading PP to run more than one instance of its filter
- channels (a feat which its designer said couldn't be done), by telling
- it that two identical filters were different. Yes, this means that
- some messages get filtered twice, but it still improved our throughput.
-
- Tim.
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