Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!utah-cs!utah-gr!stride!bruce
From: bruce@stride.UUCP (Bruce Robertson)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: comm '! sort file1' '! sort file2'
Message-ID: <594@stride.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 9-Oct-86 02:16:58 EDT
Article-I.D.: stride.594
Posted: Thu Oct  9 02:16:58 1986
Date-Received: Fri, 10-Oct-86 00:49:59 EDT
References: <6846@elsie.UUCP> <830003@hpcnoe.UUCP> <35@pixutl.UUCP> <3724@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: bruce@stride.UUCP (Bruce Robertson)
Organization: Stride Micro, Reno, NV
Lines: 10

In article <3724@umcp-cs.UUCP> chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>Unfortunately, one must be root to create a fifo, no?

No.  You don't have to be root to create fifo's; the mknod() system
call works for everyone in the special case of a fifo.
-- 

	Bruce Robertson
	UUCP: cbosgd!utah-cs!utah-gr!stride!bruce
	ARPA: stride!bruce@utah-gr.arpa