15 Aug
2016
15 Aug
'16
6:27 a.m.
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