*BSD News Article 21251


Return to BSD News archive

Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!sdd.hp.com!portal!chris
From: chris@shell.portal.com (Yanping Ding)
Subject: Re: mkfifo not supported on FreeBSD ?
Message-ID: <CDp3xH.32o@unix.portal.com>
Sender: news@unix.portal.com
Nntp-Posting-Host: jobe.unix.portal.com
Organization: Portal Communications Company
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1]
References: <CDoHIv.Jq8@unix.portal.com> <almCDonsD.Mw9@netcom.com> <JKH.93Sep21043439@whisker.lotus.ie>
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1993 08:36:51 GMT
Lines: 25

Jordan K. Hubbard (jkh@whisker.lotus.ie) wrote:
: >>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.

: POOF!  He's right!   *whooops*.  Looks like we need to look into this
: one, folks!  Thanks!  I suspect that the fix is relatively trivial.

I got help. Thanks Jonas!

The following fixed my problem.

> The config setup is a bit messed up when adding FIFO. I recommend:
> 1. delete /sys/compile/<yourkernel>
> 2. cd /sys/i386/conf
> 3. config <yourkernel>
> (that has: options         FIFO                    #Support for FIFO files)
> 4. make depend; make
> 
> Jonas Olsson
> 
--
Chris Ding
chris@portal.shell.com