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** Changed in: icedtea
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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Title:
  icedtea6-plugin doesn’t work in AFS network home directories

Status in Iced Tea:
  Fix Released
Status in “openjdk-6” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

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.