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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!psgrain!ee.und.ac.za!shrike.und.ac.za!hippo.ru.ac.za!itu1.sun.ac.za!abs From: abs@cs.sun.ac.za (Andre Skarzynski) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: mkfifo not supported on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <27nodb$g0c@itu1.sun.ac.za> Date: 21 Sep 93 20:32:43 GMT Article-I.D.: itu1.27nodb$g0c References: <CDoHIv.Jq8@unix.portal.com> Organization: University of Stellenbosch Lines: 30 NNTP-Posting-Host: itu2.sun.ac.za X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL1] Yanping Ding (chris@shell.portal.com) wrote: : Is it correct that mkfifo is not supported on FreeBSD ? : When I type 'mkfifo foo' I get a message which says: : mkfifo: foo: Operation not supported : I tried to recompile the kernel with option FIFO, but got a lot : of undeclared fifo_* in kern/fifo_vnops.c file. Strange. This worked for me. Did you remember to run config ? After putting FIFO in my kernel config file and then running config, building a new kernel, mkfifo command worked. You must have made a mistake in your config. : Any suggestion to get around ? : Thanks. : C. Ding : -- : Chris Ding : chris@portal.shell.com -- Andre B. Skarzynski -- Information Technology, University of Stellenbosch -- abs@itu1.sun.ac.za ------ Tel: +27 2231 774293 Fax: +27 2231 774102 -------