From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 23 18:04:38 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA22081 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 18:04:38 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id SAA22074 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 18:04:36 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA25134; Sun, 23 Jul 95 19:04:29 -0600 Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA16540; Sun, 23 Jul 1995 19:08:01 -0600 Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 19:08:01 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9507240108.AA16540@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9507211313.AA17400@atuhc16.aut.alcatel.at> (Marino.Ladavac@aut.alcatel.at) Subject: Re: named pipes Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Marino" == Marino Ladavac writes: Marino> Thanks a lot. My pleasure. Marino> Would it be acceptable if I submit a patched manpage for Marino> mkfifo that mentions named pipes (for apropos to work?) Marino> There must be some other SysV folks out there too :) Heh ... as I'm not on the FreeBSD core team, all I can say is ``mail your diffs'' to core@freebsd.org and see what they say. Marino> P.S. Then again, maybe not as I've just taken a look into Marino> HP-UX manpage for mknod, and they talk about FIFO's Marino> "sometimes(sic!) called named pipes." Marino> Of course they have mkfifo as well ... (blush) We live in a tangled, complex world. :) -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA Folks still remember the day ole Bob Riley came bouncing down that dirt road in his pickup. Pretty soon, it was bouncing higher and higher. The tires popped, and the shocks broke, but that truck kept bouncing. Some say it bounced clean over the moon, but whoever says that is a damn liar. -- Jack Handey