Date: Fri, 21 Jul 95 15:13:37 METDST From: Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at To: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) (Sean Kelly) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: named pipes Message-ID: <9507211313.AA17400@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at> In-Reply-To: <9507211257.AA14083@emu.fsl.noaa.gov>; from "Sean Kelly" at Jul 21, 95 6:57 am
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> Again, the faults of UNIX docs showing through: you need to have the > knowledge that named pipes are sometimes called FIFOs, and apropos'ing > for fifo does turn up the right info. > -- > Sean Kelly > NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA Thanks a lot. Would it be acceptable if I submit a patched manpage for mkfifo that mentions named pipes (for apropos to work?) There must be some other SysV folks out there too :) /Alby P.S. Then again, maybe not as I've just taken a look into HP-UX manpage for mknod, and they talk about FIFO's "sometimes(sic!) called named pipes." Of course they have mkfifo as well ... (blush)
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