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To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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Subject: Re: linux' mknod and named pipes. 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Nov 95 14:36:11 MST."
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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Date: Sat, 18 Nov 1995 17:49:25 -0800
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>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).

-DG