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Date:      Sun, 14 Jan 1996 10:01:32 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        ache@astral.msk.su, gpalmer@cdrom.com, hasty@rah.star-gate.com
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: abuse and the -stable linux emu (mknod & mkfifo)
Message-ID:  <199601132301.KAA06594@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>I remember recent discussion for adding mkfifo capabilities
>to system mknod (instead of this hack).
>Could anybody tell me the result, I miss it...

The Linux emulator should convert Linux mknod()'s to mkfifo()s
if necessary.  The BSD mknod() shouldn't be changed.  Note that
it is reasonable for the Linux library to call mknod() directly
although Linux apps shouldn't.

Bruce



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