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Re: Symlinks under /proc
On Wed, 2 Feb 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 12:03:52PM -0500, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >a) mknod cannot set the mode of many devices.
>
> That is what we call in the computer industry: "a bug".
I never said it wasn't. Ye olde bug. Jes' reportin' it.
> >b) mkfifo doesn't work, so /dev/pipe isn't created.
>
> Why doesn't mkfifo work? It works for me.
Oops, sorry, it was a glitch -- I didn't copy mkfifo to my test sandbox,
so it was invoking /usr/bin/mkfifo with the old DLL, which obviously
didn't work. Works now. 1 down, 3 to go. :-)
Igor
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