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From: quang@CSUFRES.CSUFRESNO.EDU (Quang Ngo)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: mknod for BSD 4.3
Message-ID: <9104220651.AA13912@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU>
Date: 22 Apr 91 06:51:41 GMT
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The man page section 2 says that only super-user can access mknod().  Is 
there any other funtion that does what mknod() does?  Our system doesn't
have fifo().  /etc/mknod is not accessable by users. Too bad, I can't
even do a system("/etc/mknod ....") call.

Any suggestions?

-Quang (quang@csufres.CSUFresno.EDU)