[tor-bugs] #6044 [Tor Hidden Services]: Tor can't use a named pipe for a hidden service key

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#6044: Tor can't use a named pipe for a hidden service key
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 Reporter:  katmagic             |          Owner:              
     Type:  defect               |         Status:  needs_review
 Priority:  normal               |      Milestone:              
Component:  Tor Hidden Services  |        Version:              
 Keywords:                       |         Parent:              
   Points:                       |   Actualpoints:              
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Changes (by meejah):

  * status:  new => needs_review
 * cc: meejah@… (added)


Comment:

 I have an implementation and test that will allow reading of private keys
 from FIFOs. As mentioned on IRC, I still have a question about
 file_status(): in my patch I'm just pretending that both regular files and
 FIFOs are FN_FILE but perhaps you want to treat them separately by adding
 to the file_status_t enum...?

 There's also an un-squashed version of this, but I figured one commit is
 easier to review:

 https://github.com/meejah/tor/commit/a90a93e0dce0cade00931b1e12c8d551f17eb072

 I've only tried this on linux machines.

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