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From: Guido van Rooij <guido@gvr.org>
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Subject: socket ops
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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 22:39:06 +0100 (MET)
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I just found out that I cannot fchmod unix domain sockets.

This is because fchmod() calls getvnode() which fails if the vnode
passed is not of type vnode or type fifo. 
Is there a reason for this rationale?

-Guido