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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: ligita.img.com.au is up and running with 1.5h
Message-ID: <1991May29.121848.9085@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 29 May 91 12:18:48 GMT
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In article <1991May29.005403.14215@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au> s861298@minyos.xx.rmit.oz.au (Marc A. Boschma) writes:
>What I ment to say was to patch mknod...
>ie. mknod name p/b/c [major minor [size]]

That has sort of already been done many times too.

1) The original implementation of named pipes for Minix had mkfifo. Sorry I
forgot to get it into 1.5.
2) Gnu fileutils has mkfifo. This is what I use.
3) 1.6.15 has mkfifo.

Posix specifies mkfifo but not mknod.

>With respect to symbolic links (the package on plains), what would be the
>best way to patch so that any updates that you produce can still be applied
>with the minimal amount of fuss ?

There is no good way. I think the version on plains is quite out of date.
A later version was posted to the 1.6.15 mailing list by Earl Chew. I took
it out of my version once to test and debug 1.6. This was too much work.

Bruce
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Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au