grep(1)ing fifo's

[clemensF]

hello y'all!

i'm running freebsd 4.0 and whenever i want to search very many files, e.g.
using "-r" to recurse into entire hierarchies, a very annoying situations
can occur:  after having searched a few hundred files the program stops
when reading/positioning on named pipes and sockets (and maybe on other
"funny" files, too!).

so i can't get reliable results, it is impossible to restart the operation,
and i don't know what to do.

would you happen to know a work around?

clemens