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From: guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Portable mknod ?? does it exist?
Keywords: mknod
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Date: 2 Aug 89 18:29:55 GMT
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 >dec: decnod
 >myfifo created
 >ERRNO: 6
 >Open Failed: No such device or address
 >dec: ls -l myfifo
 >crw-r--r--  1 drs      255, 255 Aug  1 16:54 myfifo

That ain't no FIFO, that's a character special file.  The "mknod" call
in the original posting looked OK, so either there's something funny in
that code or there's a bug in Ultrix that causes it to create character
special files when you ask it to create FIFOs....