diff -rua samba-2.2.0/source/lib/util.c samba-2.2.0.patch/source/lib/util.c
--- samba-2.2.0/source/lib/util.c	Wed Apr 24 00:25:20 2002
+++ samba-2.2.0.patch/source/lib/util.c	Wed Apr 24 00:25:08 2002
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@
   if (sys_stat(fname,sbuf) != 0) 
     return(False);
 
-  return (S_ISREG(sbuf->st_mode));
+  return ((S_ISREG(sbuf->st_mode)) || (S_ISFIFO(sbuf->st_mode))) ;
 }
 
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