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- From: zenon@resonex.com (Zenon Fortuna)
- Subject: Re: named pipes
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.231110.12439@resonex.com>
- Organization: Resonex Inc., Sunnyvale CA
- References: <BxtopF.EMM.2@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 23:11:10 GMT
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- In article <BxtopF.EMM.2@cs.cmu.edu> ddj+@cs.cmu.edu (Doug DeJulio) writes:
- >
- >I just wanted to let people know, I've tried using named pipes under
- >3.0 and they work! Yet another reason to upgrade from 2.X. So, if
- >memory serves, here's the status of named pipes under the NeXT version
- >of Mach:
- >
- >1.0 and earlier -- it works
- >2.0, 2.1, 2.2 -- causes system panic if you try to use them
- >3.0 -- it works
- >
- >--
- >Doug DeJulio
- >ddj+@cmu.edu
-
- Seems that you are very right. One cannot use the "/etc/mknod" to create the
- FIFO, but the "mknod(2)" works (e.g. mknod(fileName,010644,0)).
- Bad that the documentation does not say a word about this fix.
-
- -Z.
-