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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: j@uriah.heep.sax.de, wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu
Subject: Re: kern/1397: can't send to a pipe
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>BUGS
>     Applying fstat() to a socket (and thus to a pipe) returns a zeroed
>     buffer, except for the blocksize field, and a unique device and inode
>     number.

>So there's a bug in the BUGS section in that the st_mode field is also
>being set.  Anyway, nobody could rely on it...

Also, the device and inode number don't seem to be set for sockets, so they
remain as zero and are non-unique.  They are certianly zero for nameless
pipes.

Bruce