Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 10:09:22 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty Jr.) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: linux' mknod and named pipes. Message-ID: <199511160909.KAA00693@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199511151849.KAA01200@rah.star-gate.com> from "Amancio Hasty Jr." at Nov 15, 95 10:49:41 am
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Amancio Hasty Jr. writes: > > >>> "Eric L. Hernes" said: > > > > Now that I've got doom and sound 85% done, and the first > > doom finished, I've moved on to abuse. > > > > It runs and is playable but the sound doesn't work > > ktrace shows it fails trying to make a pipe in /tmp with > > mknod(). FreeBSD's mknod is different enough to not > > let this work. Any ideas? > > Sure, turn mknod(arg,arg1,0) into a bsd mkfifo call anything else for now > just pass it thru to mknod 8) Is there any good reason why we shouldn't modify mknod to make a fifo when called with the appropriate parameters? Greg
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