Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!ncar!ico!dougm From: dougm@ico.ISC.COM (Doug McCallum) Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards Subject: Re: how to create stream pipe (S5R3) ? Keywords: stream, pipe Message-ID: <13555@ico.ISC.COM> Date: 12 Jan 89 02:49:55 GMT References: <244@hsi86.hsi.UUCP> <13554@ico.ISC.COM> Reply-To: dougm@ico.isc.com (Doug McCallum) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO Lines: 5 One thing I didn't mention is that if all you want are two STREAMS endpoints connected like normal pipes except bi-directional, you can omit the mknod step and give one end to a child process. This doesn't require being root, only the mknod does.