Remote named pipes and stuff.

[Kai Blin]

Hi folks,

I'm at SambaXP again, and so of course the cifs Kernel driver folks talked to 
me about the named pipe implementation. It seems like they are still trying 
to figure out how this could be implemented in the cleanest way.

However, Jeff Layton asked me about a use case, and I have to admit I can't 
think of one off the top of my head. So, what application do we have that 
fails to work due to the lack of remote named pipes?

Cheers,
Kai

[Juan Lang]

Hi Kai,
> However, Jeff Layton asked me about a use case, and I have to admit I can't
> think of one off the top of my head. So, what application do we have that
> fails to work due to the lack of remote named pipes?

I actually think the clearest use of remote named pipes is actually
local named pipes implemented in the kernel.  See for example LKCL's
many posts and bug reports regarding this.  A remote named pipe
implementation that happened to work for the local case would be
useful for at least Python, as Luke pointed out.  But really any
application that used named pipes could benefit:  our implementation
is pretty incomplete.
--Juan