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Subject: Re: Confused file name in directory
Message-ID: <2020@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: Thu, 12-Mar-87 02:24:01 EST
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Posted: Thu Mar 12 02:24:01 1987
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References: <4768@brl-adm.ARPA>
Organization: California Institute of Technology
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Summary: mknod

In article <4768@brl-adm.ARPA>, rbj@icst-cmr.arpa (Root Boy Jim) writes:
> So I propose ioctls to convert the inode of any open file to
> any known type

Rather than an ioctl(), mknod ought to do this when given an existing file.

Don Speck   speck@vlsi.caltech.edu  {seismo,rutgers,ames}!cit-vax!speck