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From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey)
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Subject: Re: linux' mknod and named pipes.
To: davidg@Root.COM
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1995 09:10:45 +0100 (MET)
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In-Reply-To: <199511190149.RAA00825@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at Nov 18, 95 05:49:25 pm
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David Greenman writes:
> 
> >I'd prefer rolling the code together and replacing mkfifo(2) with
> >mkfifo(3) that calls mknod(2).  POSIXism's (which is what the mkfifo(2)
> 
>    The problem I have with this is that mknod() will be going away in the
> future (think devfs).

The function may go away.  How are you going to address the issue of
portability?

Greg