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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ieunet!ieunet!dec4ie.ieunet.ie!jkh From: jkh@whisker.lotus.ie (Jordan K. Hubbard) Subject: Re: mkfifo not supported on FreeBSD ? In-Reply-To: alm@netcom.com's message of Tue, 21 Sep 1993 02: 48:12 GMT Message-ID: <JKH.93Sep21043439@whisker.lotus.ie> Sender: usenet@ieunet.ie (USENET News System) Nntp-Posting-Host: whisker.lotus.ie Organization: Lotus Development Ireland References: <CDoHIv.Jq8@unix.portal.com> <almCDonsD.Mw9@netcom.com> Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 04:34:39 GMT Lines: 21 >>Is it correct that mkfifo is not supported on FreeBSD ? > >mkfifo IS supported. But you need a kernel built with options FIFO. >This should be the default in subsequent FreeBSD kernels. You didn't read his posting closely enough - he claimed that options FIFO gave him grief. I'm trying a compile now and... ../../kern/fifo_vnops.c:71: `fifo_lookup' undeclared here (not in a function) ../../kern/fifo_vnops.c:72: `fifo_create' undeclared here (not in a function) ../../kern/fifo_vnops.c:73: `fifo_mknod' undeclared here (not in a function) POOF! He's right! *whooops*. Looks like we need to look into this one, folks! Thanks! I suspect that the fix is relatively trivial. Jordan -- (Jordan K. Hubbard) jkh@violet.berkeley.edu, jkh@al.org, jkh@whisker.lotus.ie I do not speak for Lotus, nor am I even a Lotus employee. I am an independent contractor.