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[Igor Pechtchanski]

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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