[[!comment format=mdwn
 username="joey"
 subject="""comment 4"""
 date="2020-01-01T18:44:37Z"
 content="""
@Ilya_Shlyakhter, I'd assume:

* some remotes would write to the named pipe
* some remotes would overwrite it with a file
* some remotes would open it, try to seek around as they do non-sequential
  recieves, and hang or something
* some remotes would maybe open and write to it, but would no longer be
  able to resume interrupted transfers, since they would I guess see its
  size as 0
"""]]
