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Subject: Re: abuse and the -stable linux emu (mknod & mkfifo)
To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 11:58:54 +0100 (MET)
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In reply to Bruce Evans who wrote:
> 
> >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.

I've allready commit the prober fix for this in -current...


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