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From: sverre@lars.Seri.GOV (Sverre Froyen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: 1.5h.00 vs .01
Message-ID: <9106141612.AA01588@lars.seri.gov>
Date: 14 Jun 91 16:12:23 GMT
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>
>I should point out that we're all running 1.5h.00 here.  When I try to apply
>the diffs1 patches to get to .01, I run into what look like compiler problems.
>The library file mkfifo.c won't compile, which causes libc.a to not have all
>the stuff after mkfifo in it, etc... I haven't chased this far, just far enough
>to decide that mkfifo looked ok to me, and to apply the patches a second time
>in case something had gotten hosed.
>
>Ideas?

Looks like I ran into this too.  Here's my diff from the 1.5h.01
distribution.

sverre@abbor(4)$ diff -c dist/mkfifo.c mkfifo.c
*** dist/mkfifo.c       Sat Mar  2 11:58:56 1991
--- mkfifo.c    Sat Mar  2 12:09:13 1991
***************
*** 2,10 ****
  #include <sys/types.h>
  #include <sys/stat.h>

! PUBLIC int mkfifo(name, mode)
! _CONST char *name;
! mode_t mode;
  {
    mode = (mode & 0777) | S_IFIFO;
    return(callm1(FS, MKNOD, len(name), (int)mode, 0,
--- 2,8 ----
  #include <sys/types.h>
  #include <sys/stat.h>

! PUBLIC int mkfifo(_CONST char *name, mode_t mode)
  {
    mode = (mode & 0777) | S_IFIFO;
    return(callm1(FS, MKNOD, len(name), (int)mode, 0,

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