In article <cea37a$26i1$1@agate.berkeley.edu>,
Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> wrote:
>dust <powdery@dusty.stuff> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
>|How does one make a copy of a door file? (Solaris 8)
>
>You don't - like a pipe or socket, there's nothing to copy.

There is definitely a difference between a door and a pipe or a socket.

Pipes and sockets both live in the hosting filesystem, a door doesn't.

You definitely need to copy a pipe because you don't know whether
it has been created intermediately by the process that needs it
or if it has been manually created by the admin for some reason.

You may copy a socket, but you cannot copy a door.

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