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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 06:43:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry@herbelot.com>
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Subject: docs/28915: inconsistency in a man page (versus KERNEL config)
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>Number:         28915
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       inconsistency in a man page (versus KERNEL config)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Jul 12 06:50:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Thierry Herbelot
>Release:        4.3-Release
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD test.XXX 4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Wed Jul 11 15:50:08 CEST 2001     herbelot@test.XXX:/usr/src/sys/compile/test  i386  
>Description:
the man page for mkfifo(2) says :
--------------
ERRORS
     Mkfifo() will fail and no fifo will be created if:

     [ENOTSUP] The kernel has not been configured to support fifo's.
--------------

I do not see any FIFO config option in the LINT kernel config file, thus the man page seems to be wrong : it is not possible to compile a FreeBSD kernel without FIFO's

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
the manual lines cited should be removed
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:

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