john-users - john could not read fifo as a wordlist file, minor problem

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Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2012 02:15:07 +0400
From: Aleksey Cherepanov <aleksey.4erepanov@...il.com>
To: john-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: john could not read fifo as a wordlist file, minor problem

fifo (named pipe) could not be used as an argument for -w parameter.

$ mkfifo temp; echo asdf > temp & john -w=temp ...
with latest jumbo gives an error:
Error, dictionary file is too large for john to read (probably a 32 bit OS issue)

(John 1.7.8 says:
ftell: Illegal seek)

It could at least say that it does not support fifos. Also it could
read entire wordlist into memory or suppress ETA (allowing user to
choose behavior with parameter).

Regards,
Aleksey Cherepanov