[TUHS] fstat(2) on pipes?
Noel Chiappa
jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu
Mon Aug 15 10:27:11 AEST 2016
> From: Warren Toomey
> I'm trying to find out what fstat(2) returns when the file descriptor
> is a pipe.
In V6, it returns information about the file (inode) used as a temporary
storage area for data which has been written into the pipe, but not yet read;
i.e. it's an un-named file with a length which varies between 0 and 4KB.
> xv6 has fstat() but returns an error if the file descriptor isn't
> associated with an i-node.
?? All pipe file descriptors should have an inode?
Noel
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