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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:09:22 +0100 (MET)
From:      grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
To:        hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.)
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers)
Subject:   Re: linux' mknod and named pipes.
Message-ID:  <199511160909.KAA00693@allegro.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <199511151849.KAA01200@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Nov 15, 95 10:49:41 am

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Amancio Hasty Jr. writes:
> 
> >>> "Eric L. Hernes" said:
>  > 
>  > Now that I've got doom and sound 85% done, and the first
>  > doom finished, I've moved on to abuse.
>  > 
>  > It runs and is playable but the sound doesn't work
>  > ktrace shows it fails trying to make a pipe in /tmp with
>  > mknod().  FreeBSD's mknod is different enough to not
>  > let this work.  Any ideas?
>
> Sure, turn mknod(arg,arg1,0) into a bsd mkfifo call anything else for now
> just pass it thru to mknod 8)

Is there any good reason why we shouldn't modify mknod to make a fifo
when called with the appropriate parameters?
 
Greg



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