Date: Fri, 17 Nov 1995 09:13:33 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: grog@lemis.de, hasty@rah.star-gate.com Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: linux' mknod and named pipes. Message-ID: <199511162213.JAA05714@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>> > 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
^^^POSIX
>> 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?
The same reason we shouldn't modify thousands of other system calls to be
compatible with thousands of other systems: it takes longer and gives
worse results.
Bruce
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