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From: alm@netcom.com (Andrew Moore)
Subject: Re: mkfifo not supported on FreeBSD ?
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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 02:48:12 GMT
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In article <CDoHIv.Jq8@unix.portal.com> chris@shell.portal.com (Yanping Ding) writes:
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>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.