mknod implementation? any idea when it will occur?
Robert Citek
rwcitek@alum.calberkeley.org
Mon Feb 24 23:16:00 GMT 2003
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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