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To: Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.Helsinki.FI>
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Pekka J Enberg wrote:

>FWIW I have been running on this for few days now without any noticeable 
>regressions.  We get a solved FIXME in return but like I said I am a happy 
>to remove the redundant abstraction if this is too risky.
>
>  
>
I would prefer just to remove the abstraction, together with a comment 
that Linux fifos behave exactly like pipes, unlike the behavior of most 
unices.

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    Manfred