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From: jim@cs.strath.ac.uk (Jim Reid)
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Subject: Re: Portable mknod ?? does it exist?
Keywords: mknod
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Date: 4 Aug 89 10:03:07 GMT
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In article <2320@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:
# >dec: decnod
# >myfifo created
# >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....

Or the ULTRIX ls command can't tell the difference between fifos and
character special files....

		Jim