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Re: mknod implementation? any idea when it will occur?


At 01:28 PM 2/24/2003 -0800, Randall R Schulz wrote:
>Please clarify what use your software makes of mknod.
>
>Do I guess correctly that what you really want are named pipes?

I don't know about others, but I would use mknod for a loopback block
device.  Then I could mount images of filesystems, e.g. ISOs, floppies, etc.

Regards,
- Robert


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