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[Anders Kaseorg <andersk@xxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

The icedtea plugin creates fifos at ~/.icedteaplugin/icedtea-
appletviewer-to-plugin and ~/.icedteaplugin/icedtea-plugin-to-
appletviewer.  So if $HOME is in an AFS filesystem, which doesn’t
support fifos, the plugin doesn’t work at all.  For example, this makes
the plugin unusable for MIT Athena machines.

** Affects: icedtea
     Importance: Unknown
         Status: Unknown

** Affects: openjdk-6 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Bug watch added: Iced Tea Bugzilla #312
   http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=312

** Also affects: icedtea via
   http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=312
   Importance: Unknown
       Status: Unknown

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icedtea6-plugin doesn’t work in AFS network home directories
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/444641
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Status in Iced Tea: Unknown
Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu: New

Bug description:
The icedtea plugin creates fifos at ~/.icedteaplugin/icedtea-appletviewer-to-plugin and ~/.icedteaplugin/icedtea-plugin-to-appletviewer.  So if $HOME is in an AFS filesystem, which doesn’t support fifos, the plugin doesn’t work at all.  For example, this makes the plugin unusable for MIT Athena machines.