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Here's a (real) example: Say I want to know what a system process is doing by reading its log and performing some action based on that. I can configure syslog to record that daemon's process to a FIFO in addition to the standard log files, then point my process at the fifo and parse the byte stream as I get it, allowing me to do what I need to do without hacking the daemon or executing my process in a privileged mode. Since I want my process to run at startup and I don't really have much control of when it starts relative to the syslogd or the daemon process I'm watching, the FIFO needs to be persistent. Otherwise syslogd will create it as a standard file and my process will be SOL when it tries to open it. Very useful. Oh, and put my vote in the "I'd really like to see FIFOs copied correctly" bin. Thanks!
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