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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!noc.near.net!uunet!nervous!pizzi From: pizzi@nervous.com (Riccardo Pizzi) Subject: mkfifo(1): "operation not supported" -- WHY?? Message-ID: <C6L5Iz.3B2@nervous.com> Followup-To: poster Sender: pizzi@nervous.com (Riccardo Pizzi) Organization: The Nervous XTC Unix BBS +39-541-27135 HST/PEP/V32b Date: Thu, 6 May 1993 03:25:46 GMT Lines: 20 Hi there! I have the binary-only distribution of 386bsd 0.1 installed on a machine. To my surprise, issuing a mkfifo(1) command (or the relative system call) fails with a "operation not supported" message. I guess FIFOs are not configured in this kernel. Now the question: how can I configure them? I am lacking sources and, beside that, I also do not have enough space to hold them on the disk. Is there a way to configure FIFOs without recompiling the kernel? If not, would somebody w/full sources volunteer to build a kernel for me? Please use email, as I do not get this newsgroup here :-( Thanks Rick -- Riccardo Pizzi @ the Nervous XTC Public Access Unix System, Rimini, ITALY E-Mail -> pizzi@nervous.com <*> Bang-path -> uunet!nervous!pizzi Nervous XTC, the home of the UniBoard package * Data: +39-541-27135 HST/PEP/V32